The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-10


ing period in 1873, 1864 in 1877, 1853
in 1876, 1,176 in 1875, 1,73i in 1874,
1886 in 1873, and $3.50 in 1872.
DIR. II. C. Wood describes a bean
(Sophora specivsa) used by the Indians
in Texas as an intoxicant, and has iso-
lated therefrom new alkaloid, which
he calls s'sophoria. Half a bean pro-
duces delirious exhilaration, followed
by sleep which lasts two or three days.
"A gentleman connected with chem
ical works has informed the Glasgow
Philosophical Society that after expert
menting since 1866, he has succeeded in
obtaining the crystalized forms of car
bon which Profs. Tyndall and Smyth,
and Mr.. Maskelyne, of the British Afu-
scum, do not doubt are diamonds.
Cement for kerosene lamps: Three
parts resin, one of caustic soda, and
five of water. Mix this composition
with half its weight of plaster-Of-P Paris.
1t will set firmly in about three. quarters
used is simply plaster-of-Paris, which is
porous and quickly penetrated by the
kerosene. The above mixture is said
not TO have this defect.
The New York Board OF Aldermen
has passed bill giving to the Prall
Steam-heating Company authority to
lay mains and pipes in the streets Of the
city for conveying hot water or steam.
The object of the company is to distrib-
ute steam for heating and lifting pur-
poses all over the city from central res
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distributed.
The olive crop of Southern Califor-
MIA, owing to the hot dry winds which
prevailed during the early part of the
season, is almost complete failure this
year. The trees, however, have grown
magnificently, and with propitious sea-
son fine crop is expected next year.
California olives, though not so large or
SO juicy as Spanish olives, are still very
good, and are much used as a relish in
nearly all parts of the United States.
The American Humane Society,
which held session not long ago in
Chicago, has offered prize of 5000
for an improved stock-car. A car in
which animals IN transitu may be read
lily fed and watered, and also affording
facilities for them to lie down without
being liable to injury from other cattle
in the same car, is that which the Socie-
ty hopes to have invented. 1t must,
moreover, be so arranged as that loading
and unloading live stock may be accom-
plished with safety to the animals.
Foreign Notes.
-Calcraft, for forty-six years hang
man in England, is dead.
During a stormy sitting of the
Spanish Cortes recently, shouts of 'sLong
live the republic!" were raised in the
galleries, to the CONSERVATION of men,
bers and ministers. The people were
then excluded from the chamber, and
military precautions against a rising
were taken in the capital.
A letter to the Cologne Gazette from
st. Petersburg asserts the reason the po-
lice have so little success in discovering
Nihilists is that the evil is hidden where
the police do not venture to look. The
conspirators are to be found in the
drawing-rooms of the rich and noble
hence police in the employ of Court
within whose very circle these people
carry on their games is powerless against
the Nihilists.
During his triumphant progress to
Edinburgh, and in his speeches there,
Mr.. Gladstone has proved that though
his age be 20 by the almanac, it is not
more than SO in point of vigor and en-
durance, and he has abundant mental
and physical ability to enter on fresh
campaign as Premier of Liberal party
At the end of two speeches of three
hours duration, one delivered in the
open air, during which he discussed an
infnity of subjects, his voice betrayed
no tone of faintness, and his nervous
frame was as full of life and fire, as
strong and bright as when he first stood
up.
The Official Messenger contains a
long list of stringent regulations, issued
by Gen. Gourko, Governor of st. Pc
tersburg, for the control of public and
private conveyances in the streets for
the purpose of preserving public order
and safety and tranquility in the capital.
Public and private coachmen, of all
kinds of vehicles, are to obey without a
moments delay, every injunction of the
police. Coachmen are to keep TO the
right, go quietly, and never get off or
leave their sledgcs. These rules will
come in force in five days.
The decision of the Tribunal OF
Brunswick, annulling the testament by
which the late eccentric Duke made the
town of Geneva his sole heir, has caused
some excitement in Switzerland. Itap-
pears that the present branch of the
Dukes of brunswick is threatened with
extinction upon the death of the now
living Prince. The next heir is the son
of the late King of Hanover. The
question is, will Prussia permit the
Transmission of the crown to a Guelph
If not, it win be Prussia which might
one day be called to claim from Geneva
the twenty and odd millions that it has
inherited and spent.