The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-09-15

1HE yearly review OF tTaue lssutu ny
the British custom commissioners shows
that the United States has resumed its
position of being the chief source of tbs
cotton supply, much to the detriment OF
India, which sent 5000 cwt. less in
1876 than in 1875.
THE San Francisco mint has re,
opened and is engaged in coming trade
dollars, a large amout of bullion having
been deposited for that purpose. The
supply Of trade dollars has been exhaus'
It'd by the export to China, aud the de-
maad for them remains active.
THE governor of Erzeroum states
shat the Russians greatly Cypress the in
habitants of the districts through which
they pass, and treat women and children
particularly with much cruelty. Hav-
ing learned that the Governor of GAIA
vas at Kars they pillaged the houses in
the place, stripped the women and child
rem of their clothing, and drove them
naked into Kars.
THE working class of Roumanis live
almost entirely on vegetables, and a
peculiar preparation of maize, supple
mented by little cheese, buttermilk, salt
fish, and salt meat. This diet does not
produce an enduring constitution, and
the population is for the most part an
easy prey 10 fever, especially in child
hood. Inferier corn brandy is the most
ordinary drink, and is not wholesome.
President Andrew White, of Cornell
University, now travelling in Europe,
writes home that our good Americans are
~wretchedly mistaken in supposing that
the only or the main progress of the
world, during the last twenty years, has
bean made on u side of the Atlantic.
In the department of education especially
there is much to learn from England,
Germany, Switzerland, and even Italy.
ABoUT six years ago some seeds ct
the Eucalyptus GLObalas were planted in
the island of Jamaica. The trunks of the
trees now mg,,9sure a foot in diameter neal
the ground, and reach about sixty feet in
height. They appear to flourish best in
the elevated portions Of the island. It
has been claimed heretofore that lowland
districts were best adapted to their
growth, but the claim does not hold in
Jamaica.
The southern gold mines are rising
again to prominence, the product of
North Carolina for the fiscal year 1856
amounting to 80, 1886, 900, that Of iiGeor-
gia to 1872, 900, and that of South
Carolina to 81, 1881, 000--a total of &c.
O96, 900. The product for the year just
closed is supposed 20 be much greater.
Eleven stamp-mills arssfnow running
near Dahlonega, Ga. and Boston capital
is the dominant interest. Labor is 75
cents q day, and wood 81 a cord.
The enormous losses incident on
farmers and gardeners by the attacks Of
insects is every year becoming more
serious, not only in this country, but in
Europe. It is gratifying to learn that in
England the scientific men, especially
entomologists, are taking steps to obtain
accurate records of the habits and con-
ditions most favorable to the develop
ment and increase of certain we'll known
insects that devastate our crops, with a
view to their determination.
A GOOD deal of interest has been
awakened in literary circles in England,
and the United States on the discovery
in Adelaide, South Australia, Of a long
lost volume Of poems written and pub
lisbed about the year 1920 by Charles
and Mary Lamb. In 1927 Charles Lamb
himself could not obtain a copy for love
nor meney. The book has been discov-
cred by Hon. w. sandoyer, OF Adelaide,
and graciously placed at the disposalo Of
the Observation-Disclosures The poems
are eighty-four in number. The vein
which runs throughout them II generally
either humor6aas or quaintly didactic.
HE constructor of refrigerator cars
Is attracting considerable attention in
railroad circles. 1t has been found by
experience that chill-rooms fer the pre-
seIvation Of perishable articles have The
standing objection that, at or neat the
temperature of freezing, meat and other
like articles may be kept a long Dime
without going to decay, but when
brought thence into d summer tempera-
ture they 90 almost Immediately to
destruction. Forty-fve degrees, or there
abouts, with moderate ventilation win.
IN 9 good measure, decrease the objection
to the use of chillrooms.
RAILROAD statisticians have figured
their business down Il a fine point, and
find that It requires 4 population OF $50
70 eyery mile ofroadt to make it profitable.
The mileage Of railroads has increased
much more rapidly in the last ten years
than the population, and hence there are
y great many miles Of unremunerative
road. In1S67 there was mile OF road
70 every 925 Of population in the United
Sf1ses IN 1876 there was one mile Of