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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-23
'I'he Silver Bill,

The silver bill has been passed over
the presidents veto by a vote in the
senate of As to 10, and in the house by a
vote of 1876 to Is. This settles the
question of bi>metallic currency, and
emphasizes a great popular victory. It
remains now for congress to proceed to
such supplementary legislation as will
perpetuate the fruitage of this victory.
The wrong which was pepetrated by the
stealthy demonstration of silver has been
righted, and the legal tender character
of the old silver dollar has been restored
but the bill, as amended by the
senate, leaves silver subsidiary coin,
and future legislation should be directed
to placing it on an exact equality with
gold, where it stood previous to the act
of demonstration. The relation of silver
to gold can be fixed by law SO that the
owners of silver bullion can receive coin
certificates for all they deposit with the
government, receivable for customs taxes
and public duess The silver dollar of
412a grains may, by full coinage and free
circulation, through proper ancillary
return to the value it bore at
the time Of demonetizatien-- 100.46
cents in gold.- [Courier>Journal.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-23
Facts and Figures.

Mexico has 5000 miles of sea and gulf
coast.
The agricultural population Of Georgia
is 100000 souls, and the number of acres
in cultivation is trife over 100000.
The Liberian exodus association of
South Carolina reports that one hundred
thousand colored persons have signifed
a desire to emigrate to Liberia.
A nice point has to be settled by the
Canadian customs officers, whether ice
from the United States is to be admitted
free as water, or to pay III per cent.
duty.
Inside of twenty-five years all of the
five million acres of the free land in
Iowa, with the exception of two million
acres, have been taken up and converted
into farms and villages.
The negroes of Georgia, according to
official statistics, poll 81, l64 votes. They
own 457 ,635 acres of land and 81, 1925
worth of city property. Altogether
their wealth amounts to S., 3S9,276.
During the past two years there have
been over $4,000 emigrants from Canada
to the United States. This includes all
classes of laboring men and their families.
OF these, in one year, there were over
5000 skilled mechanics, or about IS 900
III the two years.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-23
The New Silyer-Dollar Coinage.

Acting under the Instructions of the
secretary Of the treasury, the director of
the minis has been engaged in making
the necessary arrangements for running
the minis to their full capacity on the
new silver dollar, in connection with
which gold only win, for some time, be
coined. Its probable supply of work
ing dies will be ready in about ndays:
and, IN the meantime, silver bullion viii
pass through all the processes of putting
it in shape for coming the dollars. excent
that Of stamping, and for which par~
ticular operation the capacity of the
minis is in excess of other operations, 80
that in reality but little delay in coinage
will be occasioned by the dies not being
now ready. It is thought that by the
middle Of April the coinage of tho silver
dollar will be at the rate OF three million
i've hundred thousand dollars per month
The supply Of fractional silver coin at
the mints and different treasury Office.
Is sufficient to meet the demand like,v
70 arise Tor several months. The minfs
are al IN excellent condition, with .
ssillful torce OF Workmen, and everything
IN shape to meet the large ameunr. Of
coinage devolved on them by the new
law.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-23

university, who was suspected of having
died from it, was subjected to post
mortem examination, with the result
that the suspicious OF the authorities
were confirmed. Since then several
other persons have succumbed to the
same malady, which is more disastrous
than either smallpox or cholera, and the
police are now taking energetic meas
ures to prevent the disease from spread
ing. It is believed that the seeds of the
plague were brought from Tihis either
by Turkish prisoners or Russian in
va.ids.
It is stated on authority which cannot
be questioned that 100000 human
beings are now starving in the famine
stricken provinces of north China. 1mag'
nation fails to cope with SO gigantic q
calamity. The London Times says we
cannot doubt chat if the Chinese have
found their way to America from the
comparatively prosperous eastern pro-
vinces by thousand, they will pour forth
in myriads from the famine stricken dis
tricts of the nsrth as soon as a way is
opened to them. The Chinese difficulty
may speedily become greater menace to
the future of the United States than the
negro difficulty was at its worst. Negro
immigration was never voluntary, and
ceased with the abolition of the slave
trade, while il the Chinese tide begins to
flow in force, it is difficult to see where
and when it will stop.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-23
How Indians Hunt Buffalo.

The commandant of post generally
gives the Indians under his control per-
mission to go on a buffalo hunt about
twice year. A party from two hun
bred to three hundred is allowed to go
out at once, and may be out from thirty
to ninety days, being, during that time,
accompanied by two or three soldiers
from the garrison. The party is divided
and the herd is surrounded, the circuit
being about a half mile in diameter.
When about half way around, the
signal is given to charge, and the
bucks commence to ply their arrows.
The excited buffaloes run backward
and forward, until probably one-ffth
of them is killed, when the hunt
is temporarily over, at least. Line
souaws have, in the meantime, come
along and picked up their husbands
clothing, and follow after 10 complete
the work of the chase. The buck, having
shot his buffalo, rushes forward to pass
the animal over, SO that he will not fall
on the side which the arrow has pierced
and break it. He cuts the arrow out OF
It's place, puts it back in his culver, and
hen marks the buffalo with his peculiar
brand, which may be cut in the nos
81 =, tho our thiph or sonne other par
# the body. Here again then the squaw
,ets her onerous share of the work in.
he distinguishes the animal her buck
las slain, skins it, cuts the meat away
rom the bones in the most convenient
nd hurried manner, and packs it to where
he bucks have already made permanent
amp, in the vicinity of the nearest
Louis Post. u
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-23

dred miles i; two dollars and fifty cents
for each bale of cotton transported more
than two hundred and less than two hun
dred and fifty miles; three dollars for
each bale of cotton transported more than
Two hundred and fifty and less than three
hundred miles; three dollars and fifty
cents for each bale of cotton transported
more than three hundred and less than
three hundred and fifty miles provided,
that this applies to cotton shipped from
any point within this state, the distance
herein contemplated being the distance
from the point of shipment to the desti-
nation as expressed and required by the
shipper. Such companies may charge
less prices than prescribed in this section
at competing points of other railroads
and navigable rivers.
The Atlanta Constitution says of the
pine forests Of Georgia: In the first
place, the pine forests of Georgia must
be relied on to produce the bulk of the
turpentine crop for the next twenty
years. Before 1910, the most of the tur-
pentine in use was produced from the
south of France, and from some of the
northern states. The supply having fallen
short of the demand, the forests of North
and South Carolina were then drawn on,
and are now about exhausted. The atten-
ton of turpentine men has, therefore,
been turned toward the vast forests of
southwest Georgia az the point from
which to draw the supply of the future.
The production Of turpentine from that
section has, we learn, doubled several
times in the past few years, and is getting
to be very important industry. Good
turpentine lands are being sold there at
fifty cents te..two dollars an acre, or rented
at five dollars per thousand trees. At
these rates it is hard to find more lucra-
tive business. The consequence is that
the turfentiue business is rapidly becom-
ing enormous, and is destined to grow to
still greater proportions. Many Carolina
turpentine men are DESERVING their old
boxes and coming to Georgia, where they
can get plenty of unlocked trees at mere
nominal cost. The quality of the rosin
they get from the new trees is much bet.
ter than that which comes from the old,
and the Georgia trees yield much larger
quantity.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-23

hear my voice. The poor animal re~
piled to my caresses by plaintive neigh~
ing; then, rot to alarm him abruptly,
my hand followed by little and little the
curve of his nervous neck, and finally
rested upon the spot where the last of
the vertebre unites itself with the craui>
UNI. The horse trembled, but callned
him with my voice. When ! felt his
very life, so to speak, palpitate iu his
brain beneath my fingers, l leaned over
towards the wall, my feet gently slid
from the stirrups, and with one vigorous
blow buried the pointed blade of my
knife in the seat of the vital principle.
The animal fell, as if thunderstruck,
without single motion and for myself,
with my knees almost as high as my
chin, found myself on horseback across
a corpse. l was saved 7 uttered a
triumphant cry, which was responded to
by the colonel, and which the abyss re.
echoed with hollow sound, as if it felt
that its prey had escaped from it. l
quilted the saddle, sat myself down ben
tween the wall and the body of my
horse, and vigorously pushed with my
feet against the carcass of the wretched
animal, which rolled down into the
abyss. | then arose, and cleared at q
few bounds the distance which separated
the place where I was from the plain;
and under the irresistible reaction of the
terror which had so long repressed, I
sank in swoon upon the ground. When
| reopened my eyes the colonel was by
my side.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-23
WOman's Need of Mental Exercise

We have heard a great deal of late of
the danger to women's health of over
mental strain or intellectual labor.
don't say there is never danger in this
direction, that girls never study too
much or too early, or that the
the daughters of women who have never
used their brains may not have inherited
rather soft and tender organs of cogita-
ton to start with. | am to enthusiastic
for excessive book learning for either
women or men, though in books read and
books written l have found some of the
chief pleasures of happy life. Per-
haps if it were my duty to supervise the
education of girls / should be rather in-
clined to say, like the hero " Locksley
Hall ~
They shall ride and they shall run,
" Leap the rainbows OF the brooks,
Not with blinded eyesight porting over miserable
books,
But of one thing am sure, and that
is, that for one woman whose health is
injured by excessive study (that is, by
study itself, not the baneful anxiety Of
examinations superadded to study,
there are hundreds whose health are
deteriorated by want of wholesome
mental exercise. Sometimes the vacuity
in the brains of girls simply leaves them
dull and spiritless. More often into
those swept and empty chambers of their
skulls enter many small imps of evil
omen. "Tbe exercise of the intellectual
powers says an able lady MD, sis
the best means of preventing and coun-
teracting an undue development of the
emotional nature. The extravagances of
Imagination and feeling engendered in an
idle brain have much to do with the
ill health of glrls." Another observer,
an eminent teacher, says, az am per.
suaded, and my experience has been
confirmed by experienced physicians,
that the want of wholesome oc.
cupation lies at the root of the
languid debility, of which we hear 80
much, after girls have left school," And
another, the principal of one of the lar.
gest collegesfor women in England, adds:
"There is no doubt whatever that sound
study is an eminent advantage to young
wemen's health; provided, of course,
that the general laws OF health be attend>
ed to at the same time"
Let women have larger interests and
nobler pursuits, and their affections will
become, not less strong and deep, butless
sicklv, less craving for demonstratiye ten
derness in return, less variable in their
manifestations. Let women have sound
er mental culture, and their emotions-so
long exclusively fostered- will return to
the calmness of health, and we shall hear
no more of the intermittent feverish
spirits, the causeless depressions, and all
the long train of symptoms which belong
to Protean formed hysteria and open the
way to madness on one side and sin on
the other Frances Power Cobbe.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-23
The War in the East.

Russia announces that she would i'm
mediately occupy Belgrade in the event
of hostilities with Austria.
A Vienna dispatch states that negotia.
tions are proceeding between Russia and
servia, the object of which is to allow
Russia to occupy Belgrade if conflict
with Austria should become inevitable.
--latest telegraphie advices from vi
emma say that the Russians are still bent
on occupying Constantinople, with or
without the Porte's consent, and that the
chances of Austria's going to war are
smaller than ever.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-23
THE NEW POPE'S POLICY.

What the President Of the Italian Centennial
| Commission Thinks Of Leo XIII.
Count D'Assi, president of the Italian
centennial commission who is still re.
siding in this city, studying the institu-
lions Of the country and the manners
and customs of The people, being per.
sonally acquainted with the successor of
Plus TX, and belonging to what is known
as the liberal school of italian politics,
his opinions concerning the election of
Cardinal Pecci to the papacy ought to
be of some interest to the public st this
time. Such opinions he gave yesterday,
just after leaving the cathedral, where
he had been attending the services
held in commemoration of the death OF
Plus TX.
The count is enthusiastic in expressions
of admiration for the learning, tact and
dignity, combined with the amiability
and sterling piety of Leo XIII. In his
opinion it would have been impossible
for the conclave to have made better
choice, and it is probable that it could
not have made any other so good. "The
welfare of the Italian people," says
the count, "demands now, more than
ever, that the occupant of the papal
throne be man of peace, and
such a man is Leo XIII. As
some one has said of him, he is a happy
medium between Ultramontanism and
Liberalism I regard his election as
most suspicious event for the church and
for Italy. While blessing to his flock
IF over two hundred millions, the choice,
I am sure, is highly satisfactory to the
government of King Humbert, between
whom and, the new pontif / predict
there will be no threatening clash Of di-
plomacy. His policy has ever been one
of sincerity and love, and by it he has
conquered potentates who would never
have granted the least concession to die
tatorial movements or incorporating
opposition. By such policy all who
know him believe that he will be guided
AZ pope, and will be enabled to carry out
al his ecclesiastical measures without
.acrifciDg right Or justice in the slight"
at degree. His eminent fitness for the
,osition was the subject of comment in
tally years ago, while the extreme III.
ramontanism and incorporating spirit
f Cardinal Panebianeo caused his best
riends OF church and state to hope that
nder such circumstances as those at
resent existing in Italy, his aspirations
. the chair of st. Peter would and in
appointment. Times have changed,
nd Leo XIII. is not only up with the
mes, but possessed of extraordinary
iplomatic powers, which, as he has given
s every reason to hope, he will exercise
n the best interests Of both church and
ate" -[ Philadelphia Times. ..s
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-23
Foreign Intelligence.

It is rumored in Japan that notifca.
ton will ahortly be issued ordering the
adoption OF the foreign style Of clothing
by all officials of Imperial or Govern
ment appointment in daJo Eyan and
department Of the imperial household.
Il is likely that this order will also be
extended to all government depart
ments.
Much alarm has bean created at Mos
cow BY the appearance OF the Siberian
plague. One day laundress at the
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-23
Mechanical and Scientific.

Distilled sea>Water Is the latest in
vention from France offered to the
public to cure or prevent all kinds of
diseases.
A valuable discovery has been made at
Wurtemberg in regard to frost-bitten
grapes. 1t is said that if they are kept
in dry place for short time the bad
effect of the frost will entirely disap.
pear.
Iceland is again threatened with vol
canic eruptions. Recently, in the
vicinity of Eskitjodur, an unprecedented
heat was experienced by the inhabitants,
such as proceeds from vast confagra.
ton. Subterranean rumblings were
heard, accompanied by alternate gusts
Of rain and showers of volcanic ashes.
The administration of the Eastern
railway of France has intimated to the
Geographical society of Paris that Or
ders will be given for ipseribing on the
walhof each station the altitude above
the sea, the distance from paris, the
name of the chief town of the district,
the name of the department, etc. Thus
railway travellers will learn the sgeo-
graphy of France nolens volens.
James Houston, cloth-worker, living
near Glasgow, Scotland, had malignant
tumor in the larynx. DR.. Fouls re.
moved the larynx and substituted an
artificial one, with remarkable success.
The health of the patient has been
greatly restored: and he is able to speak
and read distinctly. The first instance
of an operation of this kind was
performed by Billroth, of Vienna,
in 1873, and this is the first case of taking
out a diseased and providing an artificial
larlyx recorded in Great Britain.
February 9th, the rings of Saturn en-
tirely disappeared. Their northern side
has been visible since August -, 1872
but during the present month the dark
side OF the rings will alone BE- traced by
the strongest telescopes. On March LIST,
the ealth will pass by the southern, or
Illuminated, side of the rings, and they
will again become visible for period of
fourteen years. In 1862 there were
successfully a disappearance, an appear.
ance, another disappearance and reap
pearance within nine months, the posi-
ton Of the earth in its orbit assisting in
the repetition of the phenomenon.
Prof. Barrett, of London, in recent |
lecture on the telephone, gave recipe |
for making cheap one. Take wooden |
tooth-poWder box and make hole about |
the size of halfcroWn in the lid and the
bottom. Take disc of timed iron, such
IS can be had from preserved-meat tin, |
and place it on the outside of the bottom
u the box and fix the cover on the other
side of it. Then take a small bar mag
net, place on one end small cotton or
silk reel, round the reel wind some iron
wire, leaving the ends loose. Fix one
ind OF the magnet near, as near as posi-
bic without touching the disc, and then
one part OF the telephone is complete.
a similar arrangement il needed for the
other end, The two are connected BY
the wire, and with this Prot. Barrett saws
he has been able to converse at a distance
Of 100 yards.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-23
SYMPATHY,

There's language that's Eute there's silence can
speak,
There's sonnet hing that can not be told;
There are ords that can only be read the eheak,
aud thoughts but the eye can unfold.
There's look so expressive so timId, so kind,
70 conscious so quick to impart;
Though uumb in an instant 1t speaks out the mlnds
And strikes in an instant the heart.
his eloquent silence. this converse of SOUL
In vain We attempt to SUPPRESS
More prompt it appears from the wish to CONTROL
More apt the fonu truth TO express
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-23
WAIFSEAND WHIMS.


The Tramp's Hint.
d. he shntfied in and took chair,
linen fixed on us stony stare
>, We wrote away, unheeding.
until the clock struck twelve and then
We asked him, as we dropped our pen,
well, s,r, what are you needingH
,,oh, nothing much--I thought I'd call
see you kindly mention all
The folks your village visit;
And thought 'twould help fill rp If you
ohouin give me just line or two
lam too much Trouble, Is 1t
~ ust say were 4,attied to state
''S' cur 9'd iritnd and college mate,
~ i, Ehenf Ter Skinner,
ralled at our office t'other day,
~ohVersed awhile, ard, by the way.
went home wit, us to dinnerl''
--lFranklin tKy.) Patriot.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-23

1t night air is unwholesome, how
about the longevity owls?
-. VIII the coming woman lecture ~
asks a contemporary. IF she marries she
will.
Every angry man thinks he is right,
ana nine out of ten can see that they
were wrong when anger cools. The tenth
man is a fool.
AIR. Emerson will please inform us
II i'll saying the hand that rounded
Peters do ae," he meant to insinuats
that somebody put head on Peter
- oil City Derrick.
1t was rich manufacturer of New
Jersey who said to his guests: "Ladies
and gentlemen, after the grapes ye shall
have beefsteak and musharoons, and then
venison, straight from Venice"
The Countess Joannes Moore, the
sweet singer of Michigan, hastily flung
off the following the other day: off you
feel little pale, think of joiner and
the whale and the. frightened place of
joiner when he thought himself goner."
THE BROOK.
Thou little brook so silvery clear
Thou FUNNIEST on frem year to year.
stand anu gaze in thought profound:
Whence CONTEST thou? and whittier bound
leone from rocky basins deep;
Mid flowers anu moss my course keep;
Upon my surface gently lies
The image OF the azure skies.
Therefore have a childike mind
Where'er it leads me l'm resigned.
be who has brought lie from the stone
Ny Guide, think, conducts me on!
81 From Goethe
The superiority of woman over man
is never more apparent than on the ap.
proach of railroad train to q station.
Every man who is going to leave the car
gets out of his seat the moment the
brakes are applied. But every woman
sits as imperturbable as Niobe till the
car stops.
The Akhoond of Swat l--what a
host of pleasing recollections are called
up by the mere mention of that name
And many heart will be shrouded in
gloom by the intelligence from--well, we
don't know exactly where the intelli-
gence is from, but it is from somewhere
that the Akhoond of Swat is dead. He
is gone. He is passed away from earth.
Peace to his ashes--or, if he has got no
ashes, then peace to whatever he has got.
We do not p-tears, idle tears, we
know not what they NEAL but if those
paragraphists who tell us with
such funeral brevity that "the Akhoond
of Swat is dead" will be kind enough
to give us sufficient touch of his biogra-
ply to enlighten US IS tolwho, which,
when and where the Akhoond of Swat
was, we may shed tear or two per-
chance, and even weep copiously ii
necessary Courier-Jeurnal.