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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
HouSehoEh Matters,

BARLEY WATERPROOF two spoonsfuls
of crushed barley pour one quart of boil
ing water, cookten minutes and strain.
Then add a glass of calls foot jelly, OF,
if not to be had, add lemon favoring. A
good drink for the sick.
To CLEAN COLLARS AND WRISTBANDS.
Grease the soiled parts before wetting,
with any kind Of fat Or dripping; let
them remain a few hours, or I'VE night ;
wash with soap in hot water. They will
become wonderfully clean.
GoosEBERRY SAUcE.-.Pick a pint of
green gooseberries, put in a small I'M
timed copper sugar-pan, with boiling
water; boil about ten minutes, drain
thoroughly, press through a seive and
mingle with the same quantity of we'll
buttered white sauce.
BLACK CAKE.-One cupful butter,
one and a half cupfuls sugar, one-half
cupful molasses, three eggs, n cupful
milk, one nutmeg, n teaspoonful each
of cloves and cinnamon, four cupfuls
-four, two pounds ~raisins, one pound
currants, ne.fourth pound citron.
To Cook SwEETBREADs.-First wash
them perfectly clear then cut them into
long slices and about half an inch thick
dry them well, and then fry in butter o.
lard; serve while hot on a heated meat
dish; do not, use crackers, bread crumbs
or eggs in frying, for too much grease
will be absorbed and thereby spoil the
delicacy of the cooking.
To WASH BLUE FLANNEL.--Do moi
let flannel remain long in any water
have the water clean, and as hot as car
be comfortable for the hands; use one
tablespoonful of pulverized borax fol
every tup of water; use soap sparingly
as it is apt to harden the flannel; rims
quickly in clear hot water; wiring very
dry, then shaIs well, and beat or stretch
out with the hands; hang in a gooc
shady place to dry quickly.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
Wnn GONE Farmers Keen Poor.

! A recent writer says: CATER long
observation | have come to the con-
sion that a great majority of the farmers
that are poor might have made money
lie you inquire into their business habits
you will always find that they always
sold the best and kept the poorest. For
instance, if they have too many sheep
on hand, they pick out the best to be
sold. If you ask them why they do SO,
they will say, Because they bring twice
as much as the others, and ] am hard up
just now for morey. / know that it is
not a good plan, and I do not intend 10
follow it always / think the habit of
selling the best is a very poor plan for
any man, / don't care what his circum-
stances may be. I have a man in my
mind now who always sells his poorest
sheep for more than twice as much as
the average farmer gets for his best. I
have seen farmers in the fall pick out
their best pigs to f~atten, because they
would make a few more pounds of pork
than the others. This I call a very poor
economy. q.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

on the subject. This is a curious state
Of things, and shows how little thought
has been given to this great national
interest by either sovereigns or subjects,
rulers or ruled, in a nation of farmers,
The department has cost for printing
reports and all other expenses, $685.
a year On an average for the last fourteen
years.
The yearly expenses of the army
since the wa have averaged over thirty
five million dollars. From these
figures it follows that it will take
the bureau of agriculture one hundred
years to draw from the public treasury
as much money as the gentlemen
who wear shoulder straps and live fat
will take out IN n year. Unlike far
mers, officers, from General Sherman
down, know what they want congressional.
Formerly a dollar a head for each man,
woman and child, paid all the expenses
of the government now, the army and
navy wants a larger contribution for
themselves alone.
We profess a religion which teaches
man to beat his swords into ploW-shares,
and his spears into pruning-hooks; but
what is practice? Our agriculture
must goodwin or 60 up; which shall it be
Do farmers ask their lawmakers to do
any thingfor the improvement of tillage,
of husbandry of the soil or its owners?
The people should think out what ought
to be done by congress, and see that it is
done. Farmers do not watch their public
servants, and no real reforms are made.
Our public duties a1e neglected; our
progress is downhill. Farmers think
long, think deeply, on the fact, that your
public treasury pays out in time of pro-
found peace as many dollars to support a
standing army n year as it does to
maintain the department of agriculture,
all printing one hundred years.
Is agriculture SO deep in the mire and
the agricultural mind SO hopelessly in
darkness, that neither can be elevated or
improved. Does progress mean that
congress shall neglect and ignore the
greatest industry of the republic, the real
source of the nations wealth, and
squander indefinite millions on art and
professions which teach man to kill his
brother man? The trade Of human
butchery is a bl2o1-thirty calling.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

The war waged against disease by Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters goes bravely on. Dis
patches are constantly received from the
cured indicating the decisive nature of the
advantages obtained by the great botanic
cordial over its formidable adversary. Mala-
rial ~fevers, constipation, torpidity of the liver
and kidneys, general debility, nervousness
and rheumatic ailments invariably Weld TO
this %conqueror and preventive of dlseasth
Fer the infrmities incident to the decline OF
life it is also an excellent specific. 1t hastens
convalescence and repairs the ravages of i'll
health by facilitating the conversion of food
into blood of a rich and nourishing quality.
The appetite is improved by it, and in cases
Of nervous disease it tranquilizes that great
sensorium, the brain, far more etfectually
than any mineral sedative.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
a Good Cement

A good cement for mending almost
anything may be made by mixing to.
gether litharge and glycerine to the con.
lsistency Of thick cream or fresh putty.
This cement is useful for nending stone
Jars or any coarse earthenware, stopping
leaks in seams of tin-pans wash-boilers,
cracks and holes in iron kettles, etc.
Holes an inch in diameter in kettles can
be filed and used the same for years in
boiling water and feed. 1t also may be
used to fasten on lamp-tops, to tighten
'locse nuts, to secure bolts whose nuts are
Cost, to tighten loose joints of wood or
iron, loose boxes in wagon-hubs, and in
= great many other ways. In all cases
Pie articles mended should not be used
until the cement is hardened, which will
sequire from n day to a week, accord
ing to the quantity used. This cement
will resist the action of water, hot or
cold, acids, and almost any degree of
heat.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
The Department Of Agrie..Iss.y,s.

In a leading editorial under the above
heading the Country Gentleman re-
marks:
The existence and support of the
department may be taken as evidence of
d desire on the part of our lawmakers to
coneiliate the agricultural interest, but
we may state frankly that we do not
think the agricultural interest knows
what it wants and that congress seems
to be equally in the dark n the sub
ject.n
The Country Gentleman has at its
head: Combined papers fortY-seventh
year, Putting the facts together the
Implication is that educated farmers who
have read the Genesee Farmer, Albany
Cnltivator and Country Gentleman forty
seven years, fairly representing the ! az
r~icultural interest" do not know what
they want Congress TODD for agriculture;
and that congress Is equally in the dark
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
FARM AND HOME,
Feeding StCtne In Summer.

Now the true way to fatten pigs, at
any season of the year, is to give a por.
ton Of coarse food such as turnips, beets,
carrots, potatoes, cooked clover, hay, OF
grass, the last being the natural food Of
the pig, and in summer always at hand.
While in cold weather it is necessary to
resort to roots, which have required
manual labor to grow, in summer the pig
can get its grass, and only requires
a moderate allowance of grain to keep it
growing rapidly and have it ready for the
knife when grass ceases to grow. If we
take all the hogs fattened in the United
States in a year, and change the time Of
fattening from cold to warm weather,
one-half of the grain now fed will make
all the pork. This would be a saving of
food, at least to the amount of $75, 600, 900
per year.-Southern Farmer.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

Mr.. kEDFIEnD, the correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial, believes that
silver is largely boarded by the negroes
and poor whites Of the south. In his
travels south he has never known a
coIored man to give silver in change if
he could by raking around in his pocket
book bring forth a shinplaster. He once
asked a colored man why he boarded the
new silver when it has worth less on a
gold basis than greenbacks. "Oh!"
said he. "a niger loves money that jim
giles ; we know that this is real money.
Silver can't lie about itself, but paper
can. Then if we lay away silver in ten
years it is silver money just the same,
but if We lay away paper how do We
know what it will come to ?n
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

GOVERNOR CULLoM, of Illinois, has
inaugurated his new system Of proceed
ings in cases where pardons are asked for.
A convict recently sent to the peniten-
tiary for a year has given public notice
that he will apply for a pardon on a
given day, and all persons having objec-
lions thereto are invited to file them at
the governors office, where they will also
have an opportunity to examine the
papers in the case.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
A COYOTE.

By the senator, which arrived yester-
day, Mr. Wolcott, o6 this city, brought
two yonpg eagles for Woodward's gar
den. He states that this specie of eagle
is rare almost to extinction. They were
secured by him on a very elevated por-
ton of the Serpe range of mountains,
about seventy miles northwardlV from
Santa Barbara. Having previously OBJ
served the parent eagle sailing down into
the valley, he climbed a tree twenty feet
above the ground before a branch was
reached, and then ten feet more to the
nest, some of the sticks composing which
were as thick as a mans wrist. With
some difficulty he secured the young
birds, then about three weeks old, and
about the size of chickens. He succeeded
in decamping with them before the re-
turn of one of the old birds, which came
back shortly afterwards with a young
lamb in its claws. Though the old bird
saw Mr.. Wolcott, it did not see the
young eagles he had, or there would, haFSs
been a square fight. Returning to the
house at which he was staying, the birds
were secured in q pen and kept three
weeks. They are now about six weeks
old, about two feet in height, and can
dispose of a ~jackrabbit or SO at a meal
without indigestion.
A few days ago a coyote visited the
house and destroyed all the chickens,
The eagles were then placed in the
c~hicken-pen, and on the next morning
the coyote returned to get some more
chickens, and, under the impression that
these eagles would fill the bill, got hold
of one OF them, which also got hold o.
him by inserting its talons in the nose Of
the latter, but was unable to drag him
into the pen, the coyote Being equally
powerless to drag the eagle out. The
coyote then concluded that he die
not want any more eagle just at tina
time, and expressed himself to that efect
loudly, but too late, inasmuch as Mr.
WoIcott's attention was called to thu
spot, when he shot the coyote to relieve
the misunderstanding He says that thu
full-grown eagles of this very rare specie
are eight feet in spread of wing, four fee
in height, and scarcely any man or ami
NAL could avoid being stunned If attacked
by them In their usual manner, by push
ing with the breast.-San Francisco Post
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

he would, he always found half a dozen
of his hatred rivals at the house in ad,
vance of himself. At length, growing
desperate, he proposed to the young lady
in the presence of one of the enemy, and
was accepted. Overjoyed at his success,
he asked the young gentleman to act as
second man at the wedding. The other de,
clined the invitation, saying that if he
could not be first he did not care to be
anything.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
oouRr1pa UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

In the vicinity of n of the small
railWay stations in Washoe valley resided,
a short time ago, a beautiful young lady,
who was greatly admired by all the
swains in the valley. One of the num-
Der who were greatly infatuated with the
fair maiden was exceedingly annoyed
owing to the fact that he could never
have an opportunity Of speaking to the
young lady alone. Go whatever night
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

AFTER an experience o. over twenty
FIVE yeS,s, ayleading physicians acknowl-
edge that the Graetenberg MarshaNS Uterine
CathoLicon is the only known certain remedy
for diseases to which women are subject.
The Graefenberg Vegetable Pills, the most
popular remedy of the day for biliousness,
headache, liver complaint and diseases OF
digestion. Sold by all druggists. Send for
almanac. Graefenberg CO., New York.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

OF all the preparations brought to
public notice, none deserves greater COM
mendation than HOME STOMACH BITTERs.
Boing extracted from the best vegetable ma
terial, and containingn no mineral poisons, they
should be used by all who desire to retain or
regain good health. Prepared by the Home
Bitters Co., st. Louis, Mo.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

Permanently cure chronic constipation and all
the ills that result from a want Of proper Stools.
They possess tonic, Alternative and cathartfc proper
ties and viii regulate the bowels when all other
medicines fail, produce appetite and cause the Dody
to gain. in solid flesh. Sold everywhere Fr1e
CSC. Office IS Murray St., New York
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
Fer. "a GOOD Breakfast ,Dr Tea.

you often have to make rolls, biscuit and such
delicacies, in about ten minutes. It's easy
and certain with DoOLEY's YEAST POWDER,
the best of them all. Troubled housewife,
here is one cause of your annoyances swept
away. Full weight and the best material
are the watchword of the manufacturers.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

PONDS EXTRACT. There is no swell
ing it will not abate no pain it will not cure,
This is the testimony of those who have used
it many years. Try it!
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THE SUN.
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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

Prepared by
II. r.. STEVENS, Boston, Mass.

Vegetine is Sold by All Druggists.
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Piles.

Vegetine does not act as as a catharict TO deb;litat'
the bowels, but cleanses all the organs, enabling
each to perform the functions devOiying upon them
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

RHEUMATISM Quickly CURED,--Du
rang's Rheumatic Remedy, the great Internal
Medicine, will positively cure any ease of
rheumatism on the face Of the earth. Price
ST a bottle six bottles, s.; sold by all Drug
gists. Send for circulars to H~elphenstine d
Bentley, Druggists, Washington, Dc :.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
g3sE7V5N$S

This prevalent affection is generally looked upon
as q trivial matter. 1t does great mischief.
Excretion is checked while absorption continues.
All impurities are left in the bowels to be absorbed
in the blood and poison the system, producing dys-
pepsia, headache, piles, disordered action Of the
hear, liver and kidneys, Doils, fever, rheumatism, &C.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
Dyspepsia.

Vegetinc has restored thousands to health wi
have been long and painful sufferers.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
Faintness at the Stomach.

Ii Yegetine is taken regularly, according to direC
tions, a certain and speedy cure will follow its use
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
Constipation.

For this complaint the only rubstantia! benefit
can be obtained through the biool. Negetlne sthe
great blood purifier.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
Tumors, Ulcers Or Old Sores
Catarrh.

Are caused by the impure state of the blood
Cleanse the blood Thoroughly with Nagetine and
these com plants will disappear.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-03-17
FROM OAK GROVE, KY.

EDITORs CHRONICLE As you have
not heard from me for some time,
thought I'd send few items from
Oak Grove this week. | fully intended
to begin this epIstle with six or seven
lines of poetry marked by happy in
appropriateness to show the quantity
andquality of my learning, or lengthen
the letter, or one thing or another, but
alas | couldn't get any farther than
Go tell aunt Dinah, and that would
have beenso very appropriate ifchanged
to Go tell uncle Henry, that | thought
it would never do.
The neighborhGod hasn't been the
least dull for the past month, nor very
newsy. Miss Relia Garrett has been
visiting her friends in Kentucky, and
consequently we have had the pleasure
Of seeing several others we wouldn't
have seen. One Mr.. Whitepasture Ct
will not declare "by all that is bright
above or dark below" that that is the
exact photography, but it sounded
something like it. | hope | may be
excused if I'm not correcU from some
where in Tennessee, wouldn't be con-
tented with wearing the pike out be-
tween Oak Grove and New Providence,
but must needs come and take-a lady
from New Providence who had emil
vened US with her presence for the
last four weeks-back home last Sun
day, leaving as disconsolate, and sew
eral young gentlemen 'crestfallen as
dried pear. PhitOsophicdtly speaking,
as Eli Perkins would say, this is one
of the wisest things he has been guilty
of lately, for we have heard of Ike's
.SalLie being seen very frequently on
the road between Hopkinsville and
Longview. We couldn't imagine what
she (Sallie) wished to see lady so
often for unless 1t aoas to talk for Ike.
l think some one was almost per-
suaded' to make her future home in
Trigg.
Miss Lizzie K. is with US again,
helping dispel the monotony of eoun-
try life. Since yesterday morning one
gentleman l think, if he would be
quite candid, would own that he no
longer travels on his shy-keenery."
He has suddenly gone blind" he
has had that affection before.
Speaking of travelling, have tray
eled extensively recently. The prin
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-03-17
HON. JOHN F. H0U USE AT HOME.

Our popular Representative has left
the turbid atmosphere of Washington
to enjoy the gentle breezes of his ma
tive hills, he has exchanged the pomp
and spIendor of executive and diplo-
matte receptions, for the unconstrained
society Of his friends and neighbours
Judging by his appearance, we imagine
he enjoys the change. Everybody of
course wants a word with him, and
everybody goes off we'll pleased. Those
who have been satisfied with the polit-
ical course present their congratula
tions and enjoy his genial converse
ton, while the few who have been
taking exceptions listen to his frank
and simple cxpostiOns ofthe situation,
and come off satisfied and all feel the
better for shaking his hand and feeling
that he is at home among US again. Ii
it depends upon the GAINESVILLE peo-
pie, Col. House will continue our Re-
preventative as long as he has breath
in his lungs to assert our interests IN
Congress.
In our report of Col. House speech
on the outside of our paper an import
ant typographical error has been left
uncorrected. In the last paragraph
but one he is made to say. Il gave
the measure my support, ignoring the
important consideration of its effect on
my political fortunes import
ant read 'unimportant'
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-03-17
COL. BAILEY CRITICIZED.

We have heard some most unreason-
able structures made on a vote of our
Senator, cast while the Electoral Com
mission was in session. The question
was one of order, no political issue was
involved in it, but simply point in
parliamentary law; however, Col. Bailey 5
judgment led him to cast his vote on
the side generally taken by the Repub
lican Senators, and hence the stric-
lures. We hardly think that those
who object, have studied the merits of
the law point, we admit that we have
not, and if we had We would rather
take Col. Bailey's opinion than our
own in the matter. But to those who are
SO ready to condemn, we would submit
the consideration that what we con-
denim in the Republicans on the Com
mission is that they ignored all the
right and wrong of the matter as de-
termined by the Constitution and the
laws, and decided everything by party
considerations surely we are not GO
ing to condemn Col. Bailey, for not do
ing what we condemn them for doing