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Year: 1872

P We have received the first number of
The South 81. Louis, a new paper recently start
ed, and edited by Mrs. Laura S. Webb. Under
the head of ''The First Gun" we copy the fol-
lowing racy article:
We have started q paper, an enterprise for
which we are entitled not only to credit but the
earnest support of every one who can read.
For it is not the sort of job that most people
care to take on contract, even the starting of a
paper, and the successful manipulation of such
o document after it is under way, Is not easy as
it looks. But Carondelet people understand
that, they have opportunities for examining
into snch matters
We have started paper and calculate to run
it, as the Kansas farmer did his wife, on wheels,
We shall not be discouraged by prophesies Of
failure, we have no competition to ospeak of, we
have nailed our sun-bonnet to the mast, cut
the halyards and knocked the cleats off, and
are now going in to either make our undertaking
a brilliant success or dazzling failure. either
of which consummation will be worked up
with such dramatic effects as to enshroud our
names with glory.


In politics this paper will be strictly on the
fence-NO matter what candidates or what is
sues may be presented for its contemplation it
cannot bo subsidized or tempted into the polit-
ical whirlpool. This may appear strange
taste, but we are much entitle to it as was the
ancient dame who sought osculatory consolation
in the society of her cow,


With these remarks we introduce our paper
to the notice of all who hunger after under
standing, especially exchanges, and while We
solicit fair criticism, we admonish those who are
inclined to malicious sneering that, though
this is good natured paper, it still has clear
~ defined faith in its ability to take care of it
SELF that its object will be the amusement, and
IN an humble way, the instruction ofits readers
| its course will be even and quite unless exigen-
cies shall arise, and then the cape of our sun
bonnet will bristle and every hair pin will be
| made available.
Year: 1872

The following paragraph appeared in the
Opelousas Journal of May 18th:


The Courier's growlings about the Journals
having the public printing, have been SO contin-
uous and so monOtonOus, that like the ticking
OF clock, they fail to attract public attention.
1t it were not notorious fact here that the
Courier had made efforts to get this same public
printing, even before the Journal got it, it might
delude some fool into believing that it's indigna-
tion at the Journal is not caused by it's own dis
appointment. We did not make the printing
law, and we sorry for the Courier but II
the Courier had succeeded in getting the printing,
instead of the Journal, we would have been
still more sorry. So, we simply took the choice
OF evils. The Courier should look at the thing
in a reasonable light.


For cool, unblushing impudence, the above
statement is entitled to the palm, and is On
unmistakable evidence that Warmoths Official
journal for the Parish of St. Landry has a very
poor cause to defend when it has to resort to
SANDER in attempting to justify its course.


AS we have never sought to obtain the con-
tract for doing any of the official printing under
the provisions Of the infamous Printing BILL.
either by direct or indirect means,-but have,
on the contrary, invariably regarded that law
as an odious infringement upon the peoples
rights, and always denounced it as such h,-both
P0oliciy anu pflNdtelS,-"e HaFuly lHlnk tHe
Journals statement will benefit it much but as
it has been publicly made,-at last-,we hereby
brand it as malicious SANDER, and will con-
tnue to do SO till the Journal proves the contra
ry. We want no quibbling or lodging the ques-
tion, but plain unvarnished facts.


We want the people of St. Landry to know
exactly our position in this fight" and when
the rule of venalty, bribery and corruption shall
have run its course, as it certainly will sooner
or later, and honesty once more take its place
in our public affairs, then we want the public
from whom we expect an honest support, to
remember that we have stood firm through these
trying times, with, and for the people, while
others have sold out to our opprossors and been
made thereby accomplices in the work of ruin
and degradation into which our State has been
plunged for the last four years and We wish it
well understood that our reputation, proven
through several years of deprivation, by la,o (?)
of the patronage even of our most intimate
friends, shall not be impaired by SANDER, from
whatever source it may emanate. We therefore
call upon the Journal to prove it's statement.
Year: 1872

1t is better to go to sleep on the right
side, for then the stomach is very much
in the position of bottle turned up
side down, and the contents aided in
passing out by gravitation.


If one goes to sleep on the left side,
the operation of emptying the stomach
of its contents is more like drawing
water from we'll. After going to sleep
let the body take its own position. If
you sleep on your back, especially soon
after heavy me Il, the..weight of the di-
gestive organs, and that OIL the food,
resting on the the great vein of the body,
near the back bone, compressed it, and
arrests the dow of blood more or less.


If the lis partial, the sleep is dis
turbed, and there are unpleasant dreams.
If the meal has been recent or hearty,
the arrest is more decided, and the
various sensations, such as falling over
a precipice, or the pursuit of wild
beast, or other impending danger, and
the desperate effort to get rid of it
arouses us; that sends on the stagnated
blood, and we awake in fright, or
trembling, or perspiration or feelings of
exhaustion according to the degree OF
stagnatlon and the length or strength OF
effort made to escape the danger. Eat
ing large, or what is called "hearty
meal" before going to bed, should al
ways be avoided it is the cause of night
mare, and sometimes Of sudden death.
Year: 1872

In his experiments to determine the
heat conducting power of linen, cotton,
wool, and silk, Sir Humphrey Davy
found not only that these materials con.
Quoted heat in the order given above,
linen being the best, but also that the
tightness or looseness of weaving pos
sessed an important influence. 1t is
therefore evident that in the selection
of winter clothing, and especially of that
to be worn next the skin, the materials
of least conducting power, as wool and
silk, should be chosen, and the fabrics
should be loosely woven.


AS regards the external garments the
same rules apply with equal force, but
in this case care should be taken to re
move overcoats and shawls when in 8
warm room; especially should this pre-
caution be observed in the instance ot
the furs worn by ladies. The habit Of
wearing these articles for hours in sue
cession while shopping and visiting
often so weakens the powers OF resist
ance in the wearers that they become
the ready victims of inflammation o
the throat aud lungs. To such an ex
tent does this occur in New York tina
many of the most skillful physician
advise their patients to discontinue The
use Of fWs, and the advice is often fol
lowed with the most satisfactory re
sults.-Scribner's for November.
Year: 1872

The mine owners of Great Britain for
many years have been endeavoring to
procure machinery which should take
the place of hand labor in getting out
coal, but they have not succeeded. The
difficulty which the coal proprietors
there have recently experienced in pro-
curing sufficient labor to enable them to
supply the demand for fuel, which has
decidedly outrun their facilities for
production, gives this subject peculiar
interest at the present time. At a
meeting of the Institution of Mechan.
ical Engineers recently held at Liver
pool, description was given of a coal
cutting machine, with rotary cutter
worked by comp. essed air, which has
been in actual use for the past
two years in seam of coal known as
the Pemberton little coal. This coal
was about two feet and four inches in
thickness, and so hard that it was diff
cult to obtain men to work it. The
cutter is driven by compressed air,
which is conveyed down the shaft and
along the main roads in iron pipes. The
coal is cut by spur wheel, fitted with
teeth, which cuts its way into the coal
without any previous 'hoiling." The
machine is drawn along the face of the
col as it cuts its way, throwing out the
small coal, or slack, between the tram
rails upon which it runs. 1t is consid-
cred that under ordinary circumstances
this machine does the work of forty
men, md as it never gets tired, it can
be worked day and night without stop
ping. 1t is also found that the proper
ton of slack coal taken out by the ma
chine was only as one to eight, while
with hand labor the proportion was as
three OF coal to one of slack. The
actual cost of getting coal by this ma
chine, however, taking all contingencies
into account, has proved quite as great
as by hand labor, the only advantages
claimed being more rapid production
and less proportion of slack coal.
Year: 1872

Believers in this species of signs say
that the beavers are constructing the
dams and caterpillars winding up their
cocoOns in contemplation of a very long,
cold winter. We have never been able to
perceive why that particular animal or
that particular worm should have an in
stinct more prescient than the sense of
human beings but we are aware that
bucolic supersiitions are never based on
reasons, natural, analytical, philosophi-
cal or otherwise. They are predicated
on the naked because"-because when
the one builds dams and the other
cocoons thus and so, hard winter al
ways ensues. We shall all see before
many months whether these signs are
prophetic now.
Year: 1872

Tho following curious poem is reprinted from
a rare copy of the Connecticut Gu zeHe Of June %,
177S. printed in New London. for which VIC are
indebted to the courtesy of an eminent blblio-
graphcr. who quantity remarks that he sends it
to us. it may answer equally well for the pres
ent day. 1t certainly proves that the fashioAs of
a century gone were not considered n whit less
eXtravagant then than now. and that feminine
apparel. no matter what form it takes. is always
held fair game for the wits of the times
Give Chloe bushel of horse-hai and wool.


OF paste and pomatum pound;
Ten yards of gay ribbon to deck her sweet skull
And gauzc to encompass it round.
Or all the bright colors the rainbow displays,


Be these ribbons which hang on her head;
Be her hOunces adapted to make the folks gaze,
And above the whole work be they spread.
Let her flaps fly behind for yard at the least.
Let her curls meet just under her chin;
Let these curs be supported. to keep up the Jest.
With one hundred. instead of one pin.
Let her gown be tuck'd up to the hip on each


side:


Shoes toe high for to walk or to jump:
And to deck the sweet creature complete for q


bride.


Let the cork k-cutter make her a rump.
Thus finish'd in taste, while on Chloe you gaze.
You may take the dear charmer for life;
But never undress her-fOr out of her stays.


You'll find You have lost half your wife.
Year: 1872

On some of the islands off the coast
of Denmark, fence is made IN this
manner: Drive stakes of an inch or an
inch and quarter in diameter and five
feet long firmly into the ground on the
end intended for the fence about one aud
one fourth feet apart. A heavy wooden
mallet can be used for the purpose.
These stakes should stand firm and
about three feet above the ground.
After the stakes are all set take the
thinner branches or tree tops and
weave or place them to the stakes,
commencing at the ground, and press
every layer solid down with the ham
mer, and use the stoutest branches on
the upper part of the fence.
Year: 1872

Always stick to your horses so long rs
they are fast to the carriage. If a line
breaks, or a bit gives away, step out OF
the fore end of the carrisre, even when
the team may be running, take hold of
the harness and spring ON the back of
one of the animals. Once astride of n
horse, one can reach forward, grasp his
nose, and soon check his speed. When
a horse is running toward you, as he
comes up stand so that he will be with
in reach as he dashes past then make
calculations to seize his reins near the
bits with one hand and to grasp the
name or the top of the names with the
other hand. A man may expect to be
carried twenty rods but if he will hang
on to the reins horse will soon stop.


We saw fine horse running away 'ew
days since, with wagon and a load OF


barrels. After passing hundreds of per-
sons who tried in vain to stop him, a
lad sprang to the r, ar of the wagon as
it passed, climbed up among the barrels,
went to the forward end, and the lines


being on the ground, he stepped along


on the thills, got on his back and stop
ped him before he had run one-eighth


of mile. The numerous accidents In


consequence of horses running away,


suggest the eminent importance OF
teaching them the Specification OF the
monosyllable, Whoa! A horse Is never
half trained or half educated until he
has learned that whoa signifies to halt
But in the first place, teamsters must be


educated to employ that word at nc
other time than when it is desirable to


have team stop. When the word Is
| used let it be spoken with full, open
and sound voice.-Ncw York Times.
Year: 1872

THE Scientific Press recommends a
sirup of coffee for use on long Journeys.
Put half pound best ground coffee
into three pints of water, and boil it
down to one pint. Cool the liquor, re-
boil it, adding enough white sugar to
give it the consistency of sirup. When
cold, put it in bottle and seal it up.
Two teaspoonfuls in a cup OF boiling
water will make cup of good coffee.
Year: 1872

The barbarous custom of piercing
ladies ears for earrings is rapidly being
abolished. Several very ingenious ar
rangements for fastening in these articles
OF Jewelry without the usual surgical
operation are now sold at the .jewelry
shops, and are very extensively worn.
Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, May 3.-The lowest barome-
Ter over Lake Ontario will probably move
eastward over New England. Brisk and
possibly high northwest winds are probable
for the lower lakes tonight. Clear weather
will prevail very generally from the lakes to
the Gulf and South and Middle Atlantic
coasts on Saturday, and extend over New
England during the day. The pressure will
diminish over the northwest with. westerly to
southerly winds, and extend over the upper
lake region and to the Ohio valley
Year: 1872

Of nations, and let them be the blessed
means of perpetuating Thine own hal.
lowed law Peace on earth and good
will to men Mr.. Punshon is q 70.
bust Englishman, with broad shoulders,
high forehead and remarkably cleal
voice. He had free style in delivery.
and his sermon was full Of vigorous
thought and apt figures.


He took his text from st. Paul to the
Romans, vi, 22-" But now being made
from sin, and become servants to God,
ye have your fruit unto holiness. and
the end everlasting llie." The text, -
said the preacher g bears somewhat the
senblance Of a paradox. Freeman and
servants. How can ye be freeman and
servants The popular, or rather, the
rude idea of freedom is license. wish
to do . certain action, and nothing him
ders me wish to crafty . certain de-
sire. no earthly power or law hindefs
me am free. That is the rude idea
OF freedom but snch freedom il the
worst and most slavish bondage. It 10
the tyranny Of the hardest Of masters,
the passions. Ye. being free. are serv-
ants of the most despotic master ye
could find. But there art other masters
just as despotic. See the lark at early
dawn winging his way through the blue
ether heaven-ward until he becomes in
visible and is nothing but song in the
heavens how free is he, rejoicing in the
strength of his wings and the wide
sweep of earth and air spread out about
him Is he free ? The strong tie of
parental love draws him down, down,
down to where in the dewy grass, in a
secure spot, his mate and her fedgings
nestle. The emigrant, hewing his way
in the almost unexplored wilds, cutting
him home with his axe, winning his
subsistence with his rifle, reigning al
most supreme over the wild lands that
he has possessed-is he free A sense
of longing, of hoping, of homesickness
comes over him and blinds him Sith the
fetters of despot to the dear old copse
where his old hom stead is and where
his boyhood's feet have played. Here,
then, is the service that We take upon
you when you are made free-a service
Of love. Have you never heard the sto-
~ how, in the accursed days of slavery,
master put into the hands CT his slave
papers of munumission, and, in the first
flush of Joy at his freedom, the new free
man pledged his whole life to servitude
1t is no slavery to be the servants of
God for ye have your fruit unto holi-
ness. and the end everlasting life. 1t is
The highest freedom--the very rapture
of liber y"
Year: 1872

FOURTH OF JuLY.-The plans for the
arches and other adornments for the oc-
casion, have been shown to us, and ex.
hibit artistic skill and taste of a high or
der. All the preliminaries for the COM
Ing celebration are working in the most
satisfactory manner snd give promise OF
tue erandest public display ever witness
In this Territory.
Year: 1872

INTERNATIONAL CRICKET MArcH.-A
match game between the San Francisco
and Victoria Cricket Clubs was played
at Victoria on Thursday last and to the
great surprise of our Colonial neghbors
resulted in the trump of the former
This is beating our cousins at their own
game.
Year: 1872

g There are a number of enterpris-
ing men from California now procuring
their outfit in this city preparatory to
settling upon public lands. Their faces
are turned towards the Skagit river.
Year: 1872

An ATTRACTIVE EXHIBITION.
Art Panorama win remain on exhibition at
Metropolitan Hall one week longer. Parents
will find no more instructive and amusing
entertainment for their children than this
panorama indeed persons Of all ages will
find it interesting. The accompanying lee
ture is worth the price of admission. On
Thursday and Friday evenings Colonel
Johnston will kindly exhibit the panorama
for the benefit of the Young Mems Mission
ary Society Of the Second Baptist church.
Year: 1872

me he gave up the chase at the end O
| the first block. for when again looked


around he was retracing his steps to the


Bowery. l breathed more freely and
! gradually reassuming my slow an0
| limping gait, | emerged once more or


Broadway. 1 crossed over to the Other
side Tie sidewalk was thronged, and ]
| began steadily but cautiously To ply my
| fraudulent vocation once more.
| walked slowly up, confining my atten


tions principally to ladies looking into
shop windows. This was the most sue


cessful hour of the day. Before ]
reached Union square 1 had increased
my stock of funds by thirty two cents.
Along the Broadway side of Union
square / took nothing. But from the
northwest corner of the square up to
Twenty-third street 1 again reaped a
bountiful harvest, and a little more be-
tween the Hoffman House and Thirty
fourth street. From that point struck
across to Fourth avenue, but Fourth
avenue is far from being good begging
district. | did not take single cent
all the way down to Tenth street.
There were no loungers about. Every
one passed seemed to be in desperate
hurry, either to get home or to reach
the Harlem depot.


But by this time it was seven o'clock,
and few spits of snow were beginning
to fall, so 1 determined to seek the
lodgings of my theatrical friend. Ihad
had quite enough of amateur begging.
AS soon as had had a good wash, and
had assumed my ordinary clothing, l
lit a cigar and sat down to talk over the
events of the day with my friend. He
was astonished at my success, for, when
we came to turn out the pockets of my
begging pantaloons, we found no less
than 1888 as the result of my days
labors, and to this s,Ina+ aatsst be added
the ten cents L had expended in hot
whisky punch in the Bowery liquor
saloon. This was not bad business for
less than seven hours work.


Certainly the most successful begging
walks are between Bleecker and Four
teenth streets and Seventeenth and
Twenty third streets. In some cases
a party of three ladies will each give a
trifie. the porticos of the principal
hotels, too, are generally good for FIVE
or ten cents. Elderly respectable ladies
and young girls from eighteen to five
and twenty years of age, seem to be
much more willing to give away small
sums in the streets than gentlemen or
middle-aged fashionable ladies. 1 can
only say that 1 found it so in my one
solitary experience of begging. Beg
ging in bar rooms up town appears to
be useless, though in the business quar-
ters of the town it is considered to
be very profitable branch of the pro-
fcssion.


must confess that my personal ex-
perience in begging has vastly increased
my sympathy for beggars. The hard
ships of such life must be fearful,
especially in the depth of winter. And
l do not hesitate to say that though
professional begging is most dishonest
means of making living, the profes-
sional beggar earns every cent he gets.
1t would require large sum to tempt
me again to tramp the streets as an
Amateur Beggar.-New York Times.
Year: 1872

The strike among the agricultural la
borers of England-an event as little to
be apprehended a few years ago as an
uprising among the horses and oxen
appears to have assumed definite and
formidable shape, and constantly on the
increase. The disaffection has now
spread to Dorsetshire and others of the
inland counties, and everywhere the
cry is for an advance of wages. But
only think of the audacity of these
mems aspirationsI Hear it, ye tillers of
the soil in America, what they want and
seem determined to have is the fearful
sum of $40 a week.
Year: 1872

A CALIFORNIA paper reports that a
hotel chambermaid laid aside her
broom a few days ago, and on calling
for a settlement, told her employer she
had been dabbling in stocks for year
or more, and had something more than
100000 as the result,
Year: 1872

MANY jackets of white muslin are
made without sleeves, and others of silk
are trimmed with lace and numberless
little butterfly bows of watered ribbon
an old style of ribbon which is fashionable
again.
Year: 1872

The Cincinnati Convention. as Gree
ley said he feared, has indeed proved
a Fiaseo. Thirty to sixty days will
be sufficient time to render it and the
ticket II placed in the field obsolete
Year: 1872

very reluctantly yielded to the So
licitations of my friends to present
my name as a candidate for Congress
in this District, and only upon the con.
dition that it met with the approval of
the leading Republicans in all parts of
the County. 1t was also stipulated that
| was not to be insulted by compli-
mentary vote, but that as the prospect
for securing the candidate from this coun-
ty was deemed very favorable, an ear
nest and determined effort was 70 be
made to bring about that result. Nor
was there any reason in sight for sup.
posing that such an arrangement did
not receive the hearty assent OF the en-
tire party throug ghout the county. But
the action of the County Convention re-
vealed the fact that there were some
Republicans who preferred candidate
from another county than their own
That is right which belongs TO every
citizen, and cannot be questioned. But
as my position must have been distinct
ly understood, it was only necessary for
such persons to have frankly and can
didly intimated their preference for an,
other, when my prompt withdrawal
would have relieved them from the la
Dor of working up an opposition-in the
way it was done-to their own county.


AS it now appears that I cannot 90
into the Congressional Convention with
the support of the county as unit, one
Of the conditions upon which I consented
to the use of my name, and for the sake
of harmony in the party, which at this
time, more than ever before, | deem ab.
solutely essential to success, respect.
fully withdraw from the canvass, hoping
that the delegates from this county, will
give their support where it will be best
TO unite and strengthen the
party. J. ANDREWS