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The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-25

TO THE HEROES Oc 1hE AtCD41
Back of the building is a small play
ground, in one end of which are the
cadets tennis courts. In the upper half
the lads spend odd moments practicing
their f~avorite game of football. 1t is
rather odd to see them scurrying around,
graphing each other, fighting for the
bali. in their neat, close-ftting uniforms,
their little short jackets snug around their
attenuated waists.
One of the handsomest ornaments In
the academy grounds is a tall white
marble shaft in front of the main build
ing, surrounded by bushes and guarded
BY an iron chain fastened to several great
cannon planted muzzle downward in the
earth. It is intended to perpetuate the
memory of the gallant tars who fell in the
American wal with Algiers, Tripol and
Tunis in the early part of the present
century.
Further down in the grounds toward
Captain Simpsons house a little wooden
pagoda stands in a bower of trees over
topped by the giant elms that stretch
their arms to heaven. This is the cover
for a highly ornamented bronze japanese
bell that was brought from the far East
by Commodore Perry on his return from
his memorable trip around the world. 1t
was formerly used as the academy bell,
on which the hours were struck in true
ship-shape style, but of late a new Amer
ican-madc bell has been provided, which
now stands down near the fort, and the
tongue of the foreigner is silent, save
when q mischievous cadet steals out in
the dusk and raises the echoes with a re-
vival of its long-stilled voice - flashing
ton Star.
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The old fort has long since been dis
mantled and TRANSPORTED, and now, with
a conical roof over its head, and a broad,
easy entrance into its inner precincts, it
serves a good purpose as the gymnasium
for the cadets, being fitted with an ex-
cellent set of apparatus for the physical
development of the cadet. It was here,
on the gymnasium floor, that the hops,
which have become so famous, were for
merly held. OF late years, however,
they have been given in the armory
building, at the western end OF the
grounds. The %''fort,' as it is still
called by some, is in the northeast cor
ner of the ~inclosure, nearly on a point of
land which runs into the bay at the
mouth Of the river. On the left of it,
locking at the cut, a neat brick walk leads
down to the academy wharf, where lie
the ships on which the cadets receive
their training in practical ~seamanship.
The inner basin of the wharf was &C.
cupied by the old frigate Santee, several
stories high, stripped of her yards, spars
and guns, and housed over with a canvas
roof. There she lay, q relic of a dis
carded ideal of ship building, useless ex-
cept as a floating box in which boys can
learn the difference between port and
starboard and forward and aft. The
white house just beyond her is a store.
house, and the masts and bowsprit thai
ale seen peeping up still further belong
to the memorable old ship Constellation
which was recently stuck in the mud il
Chesapeake Bay in sight of LAND IN
roaring gale. She has been repaired ant
has crawled back to be a part of the prac
tice feet. On the left, out of sight, lie
the Wyoming. A new practice vessel
| 900 tons burden, is about 10 be euilt 70
the training Of cadets. It will be of tn
modern type aud in every way suitable t.
the purpose.
Returning to the quadrangle again tn
visitor cannet fail to note IA handsome
! undetermined residence on the cast end
! with its back to the bay, q sort of inter
loper among its more sedate neighbor
built before the war. This is the HON
Of Captain Sampson, the present Super
i~ntendent, where his wife and his daugl
tiers do valiant work in the good u {
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A new company, like the famous East
India Company, has just been chartered
by the Government of Great Britain Its
powers are almost sovereign, and it is
hoped that it will do for Africa all and
more than all that its predecessor did for
india. It's African dominion will be
called Zambesia, Zambesiland, and will
cover Matabeleland, North Bechuanaland
and Khama's territory, in all four hun
dred thousand square miles, or twice the
area of France. More than half this vast
region is fit for European settlement, and
the whole of i; is rich in minerals.
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The bio shin Great Eastern is re.

The big ship Great Eastern is receiving
her coup-de-grace on the banks Of the
Mersey, in England. She has been dis
mantled and her stranded hull is being
broken up for old iron. The old levi
athan of the deep has had an unsuccess-
full career. Her launching thirty years
ago was attended with a frightful disas.
ter, ten men being killed by the explosion
of her steam box. She was never a sue
cessful saiIer, and proved a disappoint-
ment to her builders as al experiment in
ship construction as we'll as improbable
to her owners. She was 69t feet long,
eighty-three feet wide, sixty feet deep
and %, 500 tons BURDEN Gin the opinion
OF the Washington Star, her fate proves
the impracticability of ships of her size.
and 1t is safe to say that we shall not look
upon her like again.
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neither stem nor stern, being equally
round at either end
A few feet to the west of the seaman
ship buil5ing stands a huge piece OF
sculptured wood-the head of Tecumseh'
the figure-head of the old ship Delaware;
1t is kept painted white and is reverenced
by all, cadets, officers, visitors. It com
mands respect, for it towers high above
the heads of passers in a lordly, dignitied
manner, unnoticing, unconscious of the
stir, contemptuous. There is an air of
proud defiance about the old Indian, as
though he were daring the enemy to ad-
vance. and a bunch Of feathered arrows
adds to the warlike appearance. There
is a superstition among the cadets
handed down from class to class, that IN
passing Tecumseh on the way to seaman
ship lesson any man who neglects to
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-25
A GIANT

The lamps of the first order, which are at
present the largest in use, measure only
six feet in diameter. This gigantic
Frenselis known technically as a ''hyper-
radiant lens" and when in position
would have a carrying power of forty
miles.
This harbor also %rejolces in the dis
t%inction of possessing the only electric
light buoys in the world. These have
now been in successful operation for
almost a year, and during that period
not more than two of them have been
out at one time.-New York Herald.
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A Gigantic Lamp.

A volume might be written of the
lighthouses in thissgicinity and Of the
wonderful sights toi4een at the Temp
kinsvlle headq~tz Down there in
one Of the buiidin, the biggest
Fresnel lamp in tho AThe4enses
alone cost SIS, 900. It SSpesed to
put this gigantic lamp on a tMVSda>be
built at Cape Hatteras. The diamete>s ST
this big lamp from frame to frame is ;
feet 2 inches, and its height to the top
of the glass 10 feet A inches. The
whole height of the framework is 20 feet.
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~OPELOUSAS
Female Institute
oPELoUsAs, ST. LANDRY PARISH, LA.

This Institution is undenomtnatianal, prac.
tical and progressive. Discipline firm ana
based on sound pr ncipl 5 ennohlins and az.
ve'oping character. Honor and self 1espees
promoted. Methods of training and CULTURE o
thorough. 4 e curriculum prepares c sns
pupil for University ca practical l,Ie: 80
~sificates and Diplomas rnrf iTcd. hull Eass
comfortable AMI comm o9i nus. latIoaasa
collected. For further paFtic liars appl5 -
MRS. NJ NJ. HASES, Principal.
Or REV. F. W. LEWIS, F.lst ASsL,talts
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-25

Oyster culture is attracting consider
able attention in the South Atlantic
States. Georgia and North Carolina
have planted large oyster farms recently,
and South Carolina, not to be left, is
contemplating a plant of 1000 acres IN
Winyah Bay.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-25

The turnkey of the Peoria Qll.) Jail
has a cure for delirium tremens. He rubs
the patient with eapsicum, and in the en-
thusiasm and s~ingleness of purpose with
which the latter scratches himself he has
no time to think Of snakes. One day OF
this treatment is sufficient for any ordi-
nary case.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-25

stIf the report be. true that Russia has
at last been shamed into taking meas
ures 60 abolish the Slbsf1an exile system,
then q declares the San Francisco Chroni-
lie, ssit is indisputable that a large
share Of the credit of this reform is due
b George KEENAN,, the American who
investigated the prisons and has con-
tributed to the Century Magazine such
thrilling stories Of the living death in
these penal colonies. Many parts Of
Siberia enjoy q climate milder than that
Of the greater portion Of Russia, but the
places to which political offenders were
sent was always beneath the Arctic cir
Gle, end the cruelties indicted by brutal
Dveraeers were such as to drive high
spiritSd men insane and to force many
sensitive women to suicide. There is the
best evidence that KEENAN, told nothing
but the truth about the bad arrange
menh for transportation, the vermin-in-
fested stations where the wretched Q n
vict conveys spend the night, the dreary
prisons, surrounded by high stockades in
order that those sithin shall not ever en-
joy ! sight Of the green fields and the
distant forests, and the hospitals crowded
with victims of bad air, poor food and
Ensuficient clothing. In such places.
herded among The vile scum Of large
aides, KEENAN, found delicately reared,
FsGned men and women, and his picture
If their misery win cling to the memory
OF any one who has read his articles. Il
was lateIy reported that these articles
had been brought to the Cars notice.
" tlss reading of this record. fol which
NJ u largely responsible, brought about
No reform. then American magazine en-.
tssese y to III credited with 4 sabstan.
A 81 II work y shs " reform.
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Ancient Brick Making.

The great perfection to which the an
clients carried the art Of brick making il
probably due to the abundance of labor,
plenty of time to devote to each stage of
the work, their great patience and pains
taking, and the natural drying and pre-
serving climate of the East. The dry,
warm atmosphere of Egypt, Assyria and
Babylonia, which countries were the nur-
series OF the ceramic arts, have kept in a
good state of preservation for more than
three thousand years, the sun-dried
bricks SO common in those ,c.ntries.
Many we'll preserved .dobes are also
found in towns and walls of ancient
India.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-25
d, STEWART,

CONTRACTOR, CARPENTER n BUILDER
Win contract for the erection Of buildings
Of all kinds, furnishin5 all material desired.
Work done promptly a0Gdt reas enable rates.
Orders through the possJlii e given prompt
attention. Estimates and plaos furnish q.
Having special facilities for obtaining LUh
BIER AT REDUCED RATES, | will give my
patrons thu benefit OF the same.
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NEW sHAVING{SALO0N

HAVING recently built gAd refurnlsnss
IL throughout, my Bare, Shop, " 7
now prepared, with ineateY 1faciliaies. =
serve the public in firm, A1yief u "
Gew quarters between Bling gANs.o giasasSsr .,
Shaving, Hair Cutt Ns, SEDg, NJ
lone in the highes Y. Re, entlre1 shs
me q call. Enow a 4 l2S Ri hD
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-25

fullness 'massed in the middle OF the
back and laid pleat upon pleat. rms ar
,angement fills out the hollow left by the
hustle in SO many figures.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-25

Siberia Is commonly regarded as q re-
gion Of ice aud cold; but III summer
time IL Is about rs hot d country as there
Is on the face ol the globe.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-25
Fast Ocean Steamers.

The feat of the steamship City of Paris
in twice beating, in a single year, the
best previous record for a TRANSATLANTIC
trip, is, says the Springfield Mass.) Re
publican, something unparalleled in the
history of ocean travel. The Etrurla
twice made fastest records, but the second
fast trip was three years behind the first.
Only twice before, moreover, has the rec
ord been twice beaten in one year. The
full list of ''record makers" since the
DAYS of the old Savannah is as follows:
Days. Hours. Min.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-25


1918, Savannah, Savannah to
Liverpool ........-...... ~
1889, Great Western, Liver
pool to New York. ......... IS
1916, Britannia, Liverpool to
New IA
1851, Persia, Liverpool to
New York. .............. 8 ~
1852, Baltic, Liverpool to New
York. 8 10
1867, City of Paris, Queens
town to New York........ s 3 ]
1869, City of Brussels, New
York to Queenstown. ,...., Z Is z
1875, Britannia, New York to
Queenstown .............. z 10 81
ssN Arizona, Queenstown to
, York. E............. z p
1SS 81 ermiifH5ed Queenstown to 6 % 1e
1883. orsg0E Npstown to
New York; 6 10 10
1885, Etruria, GE@stown to
New York.. ..ss...... 6 5 As
1887, Umbria, Queensto@n to
New York...,........EHlr 6 4 AZ
1855, Etruria, Queenstown III
New York. ......-. -" 65
1889, City of Paris, Queens
town to New York......... 5 ~un7
1889, City of Paris, Queens "FANe
town to New York......... 5 10.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-25
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bod. 70. to 81 per II
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to suit pd SUuIsmee.
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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-04
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS.


NASHVILLE, Tenn, June 25.-J. Clay
johnson, who was committed to the pep
itentiary a fewdays ago from Hunting.
don to serve sentence for forgery,
made an attempt to obtain liberty today
by a writ of habeas corpus. johnson
learned in some way that he was not
properly committed to that institution,
in that the Supreme Court Clerk at
Jackson had failed to make out and
hand to the warden of the penitentiary
certified copy of the judgment of tho
court passing sentence upon him.
He thought he saw in this oversight
channel for his liberty, and he for that
purpose employed Attorneys Barthe1l &
Keeble. The matter came up before
Justice McAllister, who denied the writ
for the present and will take the case
up again Saturday.
In the meantime Warden Pearcy has
sent to jackson for the formal papers
that will prevent his escape. Johnson
is the noted forger who forged himself
into Jail and then very cleverly forged
himself out after being placed in Jail
here. He was recaptured and has sincs
been sent to the penitentiary for a term
of wears.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-04
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

A DISPATCH from Buenos Ayres says
that revolutionary agitation has started
in Entire Rios province of the Argen-
tine Republic and is increasing,
THE Volksraad of the South African
Republic has passed a bill providing
that the Legislature of the Republic
shall consist of two chambers instead of
only one, the Volksraad, as at present.
Iowa Republicans have nominated
w. M. Mcfarland, of Emmet County,
for Secretary Of State; General Beeson
for Treasurer; Lyons for Auditor, and
John Y. Stone for Attorney-General.
DELAAIATER has been nominated for
Governor of Pennsylvania by the Re-
publicans
THE Louisiana House passed the Lot
terry bill by a vote of &C to 20.
q JOHN HAYS has been nominated by
the President for postmaster at Osborne,
Kan.
ARCHIBALD WOODBURY. MCCLELLAND,
Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, is
dead.
Ex-Governor WILLIAM NJ. GUY,
leader of the Progressive party of the
Chickasaw Nation, and Miss Lydsey, of
Alabama, full-blooded American, were
married at Ardmore, i. T., recently.
HoN. THOMAS w. PALMER, of Michi-
gan, has been chosen president of the
Worlds Fair Commissioners.
NORTHERN Democrats of the House of
Representatives have issued formal
protest against the Federal Elections
bill.
THE Sultan has consented to cede
the Zanzibar coast to Germany.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-04
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

THE North Alabama Land and I'm
provement Company, of New York, has
filed certificate for an increase of
capital from $500, 900 to S1,5oO,OOo.
THE Secretary of the Interior on the
3Oth transmitted to the House an esti-
mate of an additional appropriation OF
1891, 900 to carry out the provisions OF
the disability pension bill.
MELVILLE PRENDENBERG, of New
York, played with a can of gunpowder
Somehow fire got to it and little later
the police carried him home in such
Fragments as they found of the thirteen
year old boy.
NATHAN BEssINGER, wholesale and
retail furniture dealer, of Louisville,
KY, failed on the goth. Liabilities,
$50, 900.
IT is estimated at the Treasury Depart
ment that there has been a decrease of
about $50, 900, 900 in the public debt since
June 1st. This will make the total de-
decrease for the fsical year ending on
the 3Oth Ss7, 800, 600, as against S114, ,OOO,-
900 the previous fiscal year.
FIVE acres of fire was the awful sight
witnessed at the Standard Oil Refinery
at Louisville, KY, on the S0th. The
immense structure was blazing at every
point, and the heat was SO intense that
even 200 yards away persons were over
come.
THE report of glanders in the vicinity
of Jackson, Miss, is denied.
THE bid of the Nashville, Chattanooga
& st. Louis for the Western & Atlantic
Railroad was formally accepted by Gov.
Gordon and the State officers of Georgia
on the 3Oth, the bid being declared by
the Acknowledgement in accordance with
the lease act.
DURING Saturday nights storm at
Vanceburg, KY, lightning killed Jerry
SearIes, his wife and only child, thus
annihilating the entire family. They
had just driven under tree for shell
ter. The horse was also killed.
JOHN MoRsER, his daughter and wife,
of Wilkesbarre, Pa, died horrible
death on the Goth after eating sausage
which he had bought from Hungarian
shop-keeper.
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CENSUS PoR-
TER says from present indications the
returns of the enumerators will show
total population of the United States of
64, 500, 600 as against 50, 155, 1s3 in 1880.
HARRISON WARNER, 50 years of age,
who trundled a wheelbarrow from Nc
Connellville, O., to Baltimore, dis
tance of $50 miles, arrived at the latter
place on the Goth.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-04
Serious Collapse.

KNOXVILLE, TENN, June 27.-One of
the heaviest losses to property ever
known in this section was caused by tho
falling of mammoth six-story building
on Commerce street this morning. r,
S. Payne had just completed the build
ing at cost of $50, 1000, and it was being
occupied by the wholesale dry goods
firm of Daniel Briscos & Co., with ~
100000 stock. The building, from somo
unknown cause, gave way and collapsed.
1t was about 1 o'clock, when no one was
in the building. Briscos g. Co. employ
nearly 100 people, and had the wreck
been in daylight many would have been
killed. A large six-story brick adjoin-
ing the one that fell is in dangerous
condition and the police have to guard
all adjoining streets. The commercial
loss to Knoxville will reach nearly a
quarter million dollars.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-04
NIISCEIIANEOIra
.NYER claims 100. 900 residents.

DENVER claims 100, 900 residents
THE National Editorial Association
commenced its work at Boston on the
Gath.
Two men we're killed, third fatally
injured and five badly hurt by a boiler
explosion on a farm near Colchester,
Can.
CINcINNATIs population is estimated
at $50, 9So.
By collision between sections OF a
Rock Island freight train on grade
near Joliet ILL.,, Brakeman Charles
Rider was killed and several cars ruined.
A FooTBRIDeE at ST. Jean, near
Brest, France, collapsed recently, pre-
cipitating hundreds of people into the
sea- Many were drowned.
CARDINAL LAvIGERIE has heartily in
dorsed the French project for trans
Saharan railway.
SEVERE gales have prevailed on tho
coast of Ireland and fears for several
fishing vessels are felt
THE branches and tributaries of the
Oder river in Prussian Silesia have over
flowed their banks in consequence of
the recent heavy rains and flooded an
enormous section Of country.
Ii is positively denied from Bruns-
wick, Ga, that there has been any death
from yellow fever there, as had been re-
ported.
TREASURER HEMINGWAY, of Missis-
sippi, has been found guilty of embez-
element
RAIN-IN-THE-FACE, noted Sioux
chief, was fatally stabbed by his
squaw at standing Rock agency, Mont,
on account of his attentions to another
woman
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-04

THE Comte de Paris welcomed the
Due d'Orleans to his house in England
with the after dinner toast: II propose
two healths - that of my son, who
represents courage, and that of the Due
de Luynes, who personifies fidelity"
The young mans episode has so pleased
his father that the latter expresses re-
newed confidence in the return of mon
archy to France.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-04

HERBERT f. BEECHER, son of tho late
Henry Ward Beecher, has been acquit-
ted in the United States Court at Seat
tie, Wash, on the charge OF abstracting
a book from the records of the custom
house at Port Townsend, while he was
collector of customs The case had been
pending more than year.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-04

THE University of Berlin, with it's
6,OOO students and scores of famous pro-
fessors, has a capital of but $3.50, Oo0
Its largest endowment that of the
Countess Bose, is only $3.50, 200. Never
theless it is the seat of the highest
German learning and claims TO have
the ablest corps of instructors of all the
worlds schools.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-04

THE committee which was sent from
France to Panama to investigate the
condition of the canal have made a
further report on the prospects of the
enterprise. They say the construction
of the canal at the calculated level
would occupy twenty years and would
cost /, I'll, 600, 600 francs. In the opinion
of the committee the work could only
be accom- plished on the basis of an in
ternational agreement or a syndicate Of
the states interested.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-04

PRESIDENT DIAz, of Mexico, has
dashed to the ground the hopes of the
S., 600, 600 syndicate which intended
carrying on lottery business at Tia
Juana, eighteen miles south of San
Diego, in Lower California, by vetoing
the bill after it had passed both houses.
1t was the intention of the promoters of
the lottery scheme to make Tia Juana a
veritable Monte Carlo, and with this in
view they had arranged to purchase all
the land in town
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-04

THE commission sent by the Spanish
Government to determine the character
of the disease now prevailing in the
province of Valencia pronounce it chol-
era They are unable, however, to def
initely fix the origin of the disease.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-04

JUSTICE BRADLEY, of Washington, d.
C., is recovering from his long and seri-
GUS illness and day or two ago reap
peared in court This is Justice Brad
ley of the District court and not his
namesake of the United States Supreme
Court, who is in excellent health.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-04

PIERRE LoRILLARD, who inherited
his success from the tobacco business,
maintains stables at an annual expense
of $3.50, 600. He is said to be robust and
liberal. He has the opportunity, if he
has the disposition, to be both of these.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-04

THE narrowest dwelling house in
Rrooklyn is to be built this summer.
II will measure 71Sx50 feet The lot
upon which the building is to stand is
in one of the best streets in the city,
and has been thought by many to be al
most worthless because Of its small size.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-04

THE Grashdanin has been compelled
by the Russian Government to suspend
publication for fortnight for stating
that Governor Korsakoff, of the Cau-
casus, had been recalled from his post
for embezzling Government funds.