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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05
Fat in Forage Plants.

The Scientific American makes the
following statements, which are well
worthy the attention of stockmen and
farmers generally, showing as they do
the value of the grasses as fat forming
food, both in green and dry state:
To any one not chemist or a quad
ruped, the last place to look for fat
would be q hay-mow or stack of hay,
yet it appears from recent Investigations
that fat is not only an essential constit-
uent of hay, straw, and similar forms
of vegetation, but one of considerable
economic value.
| In the lower leaves of oats in blossom,
Arndt found as much as 10 per cent. of
e~dry weight to consist of fat and
wax, the latter appearing as the blush
bloom so conspicuous on the leaves of
luxuriant cereals. In fodder crops gen.
orally the greatest portion of fat is
found IN young and thrifty. Thus Way
found early meadow grass to contain as
much as 81 per cent. of fat, while in
that of the same meadow, collected in
the latter part of June, there was but
little more than 2 per cent. The pro.
portion of fat is increased by nitro
genous manures; the grass of sew
aged meadow at Rugby contained above
4 per cent. of fat, while similar grass,
not seWaged, afforded less than 8 per
cent. of fat. s-..-
The nature of this sort of vegetable
fat was investigated some little time
ago by the German chemist, KONG, who
found that by treatment with strong
alcohol, the fat of grass and clover hay
could be separated into two parts, one
a solid waxy substance, the other fluid
fat, soluble in alcohol. at first he
considered the latter to be true glycer-
inc, but changed his mind after the in
vestigations of Schulz, who proved that
though it contains the same proportion
of carbon and hydrogen as ordinary
fat, the fluid fat of hay is something
quite different, since no glycerine can
be obtained from it,
Konig has since confirmed these re-
suits and carried forward the investi-
cation, showing that the fat of oats, rye
and vetch seed is similarly constituted.
In all these forms of vegetation, hay,
oat straw, the grain of oats, rye, vetch-
es, and possibly others, he finds o1eic
and palmitic acids, not combined with
but in free state; and as
these acids in their combinations are
well known as large ingredients of nu-
tritive fats and oils, it is likely that
they have considerable influence on
the value of these plants for fodder.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05
PaWnbr0kerss


Few OF our readers are probably
aware OF the immense extent to which
the poor IN this city make use of Ioans
from the pawnbrokers' shops. There
are III New York and Brooklyn some
400 Of these. and il Jersey Cisy and
Hoboken sixty. They advance to ths
poor during each year some 81, ,000. 900.
These loans are usually for thirty days,
and the rate OF interest is from eight
TO twenty per cent. per month. The
article pledged for the loan is usually
three times The value OF the sum lent,
and Is often never redeemed, owing to
the distress or poverty OF the person
borrowing If the interest is from
eight TO ten per cent. per month, it will
be seen that tha paWnbrakars make
some hundrsd per cent. al their loans,
or about four millions annually from
the poor and it IL not improbable they
get as much more from the eale of the
articles pawned. --NeaD York Tines.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05
Conversation as an Art.

We all converse or, in other words,
| talk with each other-unless forbid den
| by unkindly nature, as in the case sof
deaf mutes, or compelled by arbitrary
force to maintain a silence we abhJr.
We occasionally read of people who, in
d fit of caprice, resolve never to bestUw
upon their felloW-creatures the benefit
Of their discourse. But such people
may be called phenomenal. Men and
women may be taciturn, just as men
and women may be loquaeious, bat
voluntary silence is never to be expected
of any human being possessed of the
ordinary desire to secure information
supposed to be locked up IN the bos1in
of another, OF any one gifted with q
common anxiety to impsrt information
10 others. Tona ues were made for vocal
purposes, and humanity is apt TO regsrl
them, in its own case, as made kGr
speech. Whether the inferior ordsrsof
creation entertain each other with, CON-
versation or nos is D question We leave
to scholastic dispntants; but that 3ro
two OF the human family viii long RE-
main silent If placed within sight ind
hearing of each other, is an accepted
fact. liz they can think, as strangers,
OF no other copgenial point Of interest,
they will dilaEe upon the weather, end
the way to mutual discourse thus opeae
upon neutral ground, the path to 80
ciabiIity becomes one oil facility.
But. after all, mere speech lis not c;,a.
versation In the stricter sense, and of
those with whom We talk every day,
how few really converse weII-hoR gew
of them so interest rs with their esas
versation that we listen To what they
utter with qualification, and in their
absence long 10 listen to them again.
Is conversation, then, an arta Speech
we know TO be natural gift bkst is
conversation itself the kind Of conler-
sation that hfst wins and then fasci-
natas oar attention. gift only Be
qylired by tuition aud experience? srhe
French think 30, we presume, for ayell-
known professor in Paris adverEiadg to
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05
Fad's Jetty Bill.

The west and soath, irrespective Of
party, unitedly favored the bill. The
provisions of the bill, as amended
and passed the house, are these: That
John B. Eads, of st. Louis, be au
thorized to construct such permanent
and sufficient jetties and such auxiliary
works as are necessary to create and
permanently maintain wide and deer
channel between the southwest pass Of
the Mississippi river and the Gulf OF
Mexico, and for that purpose he may
construct in the river an outlet or pass.
and likewise in the Gulf of Mexico
such walls, jetties, dikes, levees and
other structures, and employ such
boats, RATS and appliances as he may,
in the prosecution of said work, deem
necessary. Provided, that no such
structures employed shall materially
Interfere with the free navigation of
said pass, and to protect said works he
may build and maintain such levees as
may be necessary to secure their per-
manency along the banks of the river
or southwest pass. Provided, that un.
less the construction of the work shall
be substantially commenced within
eight months from the approval of this
act, and prosecuted with due diligence,
these provisions shall be void, and un-
less Eads shall secure navigable depth
of twenty feet of water through said
pass within thirty months after the ap-
proval of this act, congress may revoke
the privileges granted and cancel the
obligations assumed by the United
States unless Eads shall, after securing
twenty feet of water secure an addi-
tional depth of not less than two feet
each succeeding year thereafter, until
twenty six feet shall have been secured,
and four feet additional, or thirty feet,
within twenty-four months after having
secured twenty-six feet; and in case
Eads shall fail to comply with the fore
going conditions as to depth of water
and time for any period of twelve
months in excess of the time fixed,
and the act shall absolutely become
null and void without action by con-
gress. These conditions are made OBJ
igatory upon Ead's heirs. That the
conditions prescribed being complied
with, the United States agree to pay
Eads eight million dollars for construct
ing the works and obtaining the depth
of thirty feet in said channel, and the
annual rum of one hundred and thirty
Thousand dollars for each and every
year that said depth of thirty feet shall
be maintained by the ietties snd auxil-
iary works aforesaid in southwest pass
during twenty years after securing the
said depth. An amendment was added
to insure the permanency and durabil-
ity of the work. Tt directs the secre-
tary of war, if Eads is not permanently
constructing the jetties, to report the
facts to congress for action.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05

MODERN ATHENS. ---As for Athens, ii
Is place to see and quit. The out
linea, lights and coloTs are marvellous.
but even the most haIlowed classical
associations cannot clothe The bare hills
like those green forests that the heart
aickens for. Yon may still stray con-
tempiatiye in the philosophic shades of
Academus, but your thonghts are likely
to run on the length Of dusty or muddy
roads which lies between yonF step and
the streets of Rolus. It is true the
life in the cafes is lively enough, and it
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05

is curious to mark the excitement OF
journalists and politicians. Athens
boasts about as many daily journals as
Paris; it provides as many places as
possible for it's patriots, but as every
lad of decent intelligence plunges into
a political career, naturally tho number
of public men scrambling for places is
out of all proportion to the gentlemen
in Office, and you tire of looking on at a
storm in a saucer,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05
The Origin of Indian Names.

A member of Major PoWell's expedi-
tion, which has been engaged in the
territories, furnished the Tribune some
interesting notes of the discoveries
made in the origin of Indian names.
1t seems that each tribe or primary or
ganization of Indians, rarely including
more than two hundred souls, is, in
obediance to the additional laws of these
people, attached to some Well-defned
territory or district, and the tribe takes
the name of such district. Thus the
U-intats, known to white men as a
branch of the Utes, belonged to the
Uintah valley. U-imp is the name, for
pine too meap, for land or country f;
U-im-too- meap, pine land but this has
been contracted TO q in tab, and the
tribe inhabiting The valley were called
U-in.tats. q is the term signifying az
row; U-too meap, arrow land. The re-
gion of the country bordering on Utah
lake is called q too-meap because of the
great number of reeds growing there from
which their AFRO shafts were made. The
tribe formerly inhabiting Utah valley
was called q tah-ats, which has been
corrupted into the name Ute by the
white people Of the country. The name
U-tah-ats belonged only to q small
tribe living in the vicinity of the lake,
but it has been extended so as t. in
clude the greater part of the Indians of
Utah and Colorado. Another general
name used by white men is Pintes. A
tribe of U-tah-ats being defeated and
driven away by a stronger tribe, who
occupied their country and took their
name, were obliged TO take new name
corresponding tothenew home in which
they settled themselves. But they also
called themselves Pal Utah. ats or true
U-tah-ats. The corrupted name Piutes
is now applied TO the Indians of large
section Of country. Several Of these
tribes have numerous names, and in
this way the number of individual
tribes has probably been much overesti-
mated.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05

SOUND EDUCATION. DIR. johnson was
extremely averse to the present foppish
mode Of educating children, so far as
to make them what foolish mothers
call elegant, young men. He said to a
lady, who asked him what she should
teach her son IN early life Madam,
to read, to write, to count; grammar,
writing and arithmetic three things
which, if not taught in early life are
seldom if ever Taught to any purpose,
and without the knowledge Of which no
superstructufe of learning or knowl-
edge can be built"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05

NOVEL RAILROAD IN SYRIA, 1t is said
that the Turkish government is con-
structing railway between Aleppo and
A1exandretta, distance of more than
ninety miles, to consist of a low wall
following closely the topography Of the
country. Upon this wall q single rail
will be laid, and the locomotive and the
last ear being provided with horizontal
wheels to grasp the sides of the mason
ny will retain the whole train securely
upon the track, it is thought. The
passenger cars are to be constructed in
such manner as to make it easy to adj
just the weight by arranging the tTaV-
elers in their seats. When filed prop
erly ninety-aix passengers viii consti-
tute load for single train.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05

"A SOUTHWESTERN journal told its
readers that AZ night, = When ron see
The big lipper, with the handle toward
yon, ana fne tail Or The comet III the
bowl IL ii about time 10 go home and
10 To bed. ]"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05

PowDERED chalk added 10 connon
glue strengthens ii. A glue which will
resist the action of water is mads by
boiling one pound Of glue in two quarts
OF skinned milk.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05

a PRETTY girl is employed to take up
the collections in Springfield church,
and the receipts are very heavy. III q
strange gentleman hesitates about con.
tributing, she smiles, mods and winks
in such queer style that the victim
first blushes up to the roots OF his hair,
and then makes q dive for his pocket
book, anxious to close the interview as
soon as possible. All the young fellows
that know her think it wotth fifty cents
q week to catch her beautiful brown
eye, and the women all pay because if
they don't she 4ays "meanny" with her
lips, while look of intense disgust
oyarspreads her face,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05
In q GOndOla.

Susan Coolridge writes "Would
you know how gondolas are ordered
in Venice? You step out on the balco-
ny and call Giacomo 7 Instantly from
below comes the response, AT your
service, Signora 7 and the gondola,
your little private carriage, shoots to
the door. We are fond of our Giacomo,
who was stout, handsome fellow, with
face and arms dyed by the sun to a
beautiful umber brown. He affected
bright colors, and his orange and red
awning, his yellow shirt and scarlet
sash, made, when taken in connection
with his brown face, vivid bit OF
moving color which was Joy to see.
This evening, my evening, we we're
without awning, and was glad of my
parasol as We shot into the Grand
Canal, which was all dazzle of gold
and red from the sun, as yet good
way above the horizon. Where will you
go, Signora?' To the sunset, Giocomo.
Go to the other side of the Giudecca,
and I'll choose a place. Another
second and we were gliding towards
the Giudecca, which is the widest of all
111O AuO u b
gondola is unlike any other motion in
the world. Smooth, swift, efortless,
without jar or quiver, without apparent
motive power (for the oarsman is be-
hind and out of vieW), it is very bliss
of movement like a birds fight, like a
darting fish, or, better still, like pro-
gress by volition, turning, swerving to
right. to left by The power of Thought.
Giacomo has poetry in his nature. He
roWed softly, and did not speak to break
the spell of silence as we moved on.
Leaning over the side of the gondola I
could see the sWaying figure reflected
in the blue canal, distinct red and
yellow shadow. On the other hand was
the sun, ball of fiery gold floating in
an intense pink sky. The light was too
vivid could not look, and closed my
eyes, but still the color pursued me and
danced in almost painful brillianey upon
my brain.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05

ENGLlSH LhOHCAClhA4ONs
frbe ease with which the English language can
be acquired by foreigners will be understood after
perIlsal OF the foilowing:l
Wife, make me some dumplings of dough,
They're better than meat for my cough;
Pray let them be boiled till hot through
But not till they're heavy or tough.
Now-I must be on to the plough,
And the boys, when they've had enough,
Must keep the flies of with bough,
While the old mare drinks at the trough.
INSIDE of the hat of cattle thief re-
Gently arrested in Detroit were found
pasted the following naxims: Gre
member that truth is jewel; do not
coves respect old age be content with
what you have; live that men will take
your character as an example. In con-
sideration Of this excellent principles
governing the mans life the judge
kindly allowed him to retain the printed
slip containing them during his years
goiourn In the penitentiary.
The Hillsborough recorder., 1875-09-22
In MEMoaIAM.


I. is our painful duty to notice the death
of Mr. Thomas y. Cooley, who died Of
consumption at Marno Station. ID Tray.s
county. on the 22nd Of August last.
Tie deceased vas born IN llillsberolgh.
N. g.; on the 9th Of December. 1889.
When yery young be came with hls pr
cnts 10 Texas. lie was raised ~ Va rshall.
Here Le spent his boyhood an! earlier
manhood. Al. sixteen or seventeen years Of
are he commenced writing for the press.
aud rave evidence Of taIent. but the war
came on, and like most Of our young men,
he volunteered in the service. where he re-
manned until is close. making true and
brave soldier. After war be settled at
Henderson. 10 Rusk county. where be en-
gagged il the printing business, II which
lie continued until the close of his life. In
1866 be married in Henderson an estinii-
Bile lady, who is now widow with thret
helpless children. How great il the los
t. her aud 10 them. His mother and SIS
ters are living in Marshall. TO the'a oil
/ il is q sad and sore affection. We deeply
sympathise Sith them ID their great bereye
mcnt.
i Mr.. Cooley was connected with several
public journals: PanoIa Bulletin. At Tar
image Henderson Times, Gilaer senlinel
Canton News. and CieburBe Times.
Ills bealth had berpme % much impaire'
thai he LETT tlebnrHe for the frontier
sainly hoping for new lease OF life. IL
reached Marno Station, oniy 20 die
W. know but few particulars VI his ~
ness. Ills faithful wife was too distresse'
to write much lie was Mason snd Al
Ola r-lla.. -r,i : rHrmlrT or The n. y
Church in tile faith u which be died .
sincere AMI triumphant christian. lie va
~ honest inan. devoted 70 his friends. an
generous III BIS impulses. Many will re
member these admirable traits u bis eharae
ter even IL his bbihood. But be has passe
life's vale, ard biz eyes have opened upo
that eternal world % which We are al has
,ening. May be fBd peace aud haPpine'
Oh it, shore. and may our Heavenly Faith
er ihrow bis protesting arm over ihos
, whom in life he loved --7eors Herold.
The Hillsborough recorder., 1875-09-22
REFORM DE ASURES.

The Goldsbofo Messenger says: How
surely and Potently public opinion Is mass.
ing itself ii favor of Reform. Ialieatiyns
Of this healthy chsngcofsen,iment areto.be
met With everywhere. The great interest
manifested III tI.e Convention shows that tie
people are is deep earnest u tbs matter.
and. We trust. eili nos look - vsinio tie
Censen:lon nes IL Session lYr sucn relief .
Is most needed.
Alarge nuaiber IL amendments are a.
resa, teiore tie Cynseniiain tie ,aal II
-ordinansss. Tss.e ,l,s4.d le acted upon
" speedily i possible. rhe PEOPLE asait
tie result With murc than ordinary ankle
Is; and tie resPonsi6iiity rests with the
.ixt,-One Democrats ID The Convention.
From lie Radical side We have nothing =
hope. The animus Of their leaders has
shown this. Then whatever Reform y ~
complisl.ed must be Tie work u The Demo.
erats, and % these. and these only, We ad.
dress ourselves.
] OF tie amendments already introduced ]
large uuaiber meet our warmsst approba-
! ton. and. ]. enacted. would doubtless -
ceisc the sanction Of the white people. VI
speak ad,iscdly On this Poiut. The poopl'
II Eastern Carolina appeal % The note
generosity Of Western Carolina for aij
whateser msy % the views of our Wea
teru friends, here IN the East the PROPOSE
ton to confer The appointment q ihe Judge
and Magistrates upon the General Assem-
bIy meets with universal favor.
Tie ordinance proposing 70 disfranehis
convicted rogues and feIons, and 70 disqu'
lis them from holding Office or acting !
jurors is approved BY all honest men; OIL
rogues oppose Il. Making prepayment
poll tax a qualification for suffrage isanoil
~ good amendment. We would Ike
ZEE both tlisse ordinances adopted.
Restore tie ol5 precinct syslem. arl q
courts u pleas 4ai quarter sss.isLs. VI
The Hillsborough recorder., 1875-09-22
Radio lL H0HL.

y 4 4
Repnblican papers are much exercised y
tic introduction az aa ordinance into the I
Convention. rsquiaing the .paymeni of
poll tax as i prerequisite for yotmt. They
a1nounce the measure As an attack upon
the rights Of the poor man and an attempt /
to deprive him Of the right Of suffrage y
Il j part of that system oftactice on the
part of the Republicans to denoance every
thing proposed BY the Democrats for the
reform II our political system. and TO dis
tort every moYe into plan to discriminate
ii favor of one class to the injury of another,
But III spite of the clamor raised, We
hone the Convention will adopt the princi-
Pie and engraft il into the Constitution.
Suffrage is not an inherent right to be en-
ioyed as the air we breathe. or the liberty
oi speech We enjoy. Il i the gift Of pel''
tical society. ia compensation for prosec
ton rendered BY government L can %
withheld when duties and services cease "
bs reciprocal. Of when crime bas worked a
forfeiture 81 the right. Suffrage y ihe
badge Of tie free man and Of the Law abid-
ing citizcn. u hangs uneasily aud anna-
tar-lly upon the ianper and the ielon, i
| is degraded when tho distinction i cfi'iccd
bctgeen virtue aud crime, and it departs
from i.s original functions when il exercise
i shared indiscrimi,mtcly without reference
70 qualification Or character.
Under the present Constitution, the
poll tax is appropriated exclusively to the
support Of the common school system, the
benefits of which are shared BY white and
black ii equal degree. The injustice tc
both Is apparent when The source Ofsuu-
Dis Is dried up Al the very forntain heal
The pol, tax is at present alm,st q solan-
tary Offering. There is no way e enforc'
its faithful collection. Tie returns o
every sheriff show the immense yearl.
evasion Of the tax aud deficiency IN thu
source Of revenue.
Il can work No iajlsti;e 70 any man I
be required % pay his POLL tax. Y y
right Of suffrage Is worth anything he viii
protect it BY this small annual contribu
: tion to tie objects pf education. L i no
] oppressive IL the pour man because iis faith
J ful payment would give tue poor man wha
liz canngt otherwise yet. good edaeatio
J for bis children. II the pour man do'
!, not va!ae that blessing, then he is not
good citizen.
: The Republicans of North Carolina ma
/ take lesson from the rolored people
frgmIa. rua convention they late
held III Richmond. they declared that Il
7 education Of their race was of prime il
Y portauce aud. the poll tax being applied
!. he same purpose IN Virginia as in Nort
I Carolina. demanded u.at the poll /;
\ should be paid before man vas perniit'
? TO vote.
7 Thisis simple. direct and efficient "
z IL reaching tie end. Its nothing butt
y iemag1gue who sees any injustice to Al
Z class or race, Or who can perceive ans
= Justice in proposition. tie sole u Jet
= which is to provide the advantages q edr
y alton for The very class whOse prejadic
= are appealed to.
The Hillsborough recorder., 1875-09-22
.THlNKS.


One never sy knows Nhoare bis real friends
until his hour of trouble eomes! sorely
.fi.ctea BY the loss Of a beloved. and no.
noured fellow citizen; the county q Orange
xas still farther distressed. BY the depriya-
tin Of one half Of its representation, IN the
csryention now in session when, greatly
to the surprise. and Qualification. Of the
Conservative party their Radical friends
from abroad. rushed to their assistance
caoyassed The county, and succeeded N
nearly doubling their previous majority.
Tie Young nan, from Granville. exert,
ed himself manfally; while Windy
wilyum, did not spare his bellows, 70 sal
nothing Of other little inceairyments USED.
They deserve great praise. and a mite
heap Of thanks. await heir acceptance
from ag.a,eful people, May they be Away
as successful There is beauty IN bsnes
olence. that it Is comfortable to cortcm
plate