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St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22
A New Cotton.
IN. O. Democrat


Major Tom Rynum calledat the Dem
ocrat Office yesterday and exhibited q
sample of the new worm proof cotton.
which so far has resisted the attacks OF
insects Of all kinds. The history OF this
cotton is peculiar. In 1867 negro who
had been employed on one of the gun
boats III the river brought ashore some
cotton seed which he said he got on
some Island in the Gulf of Mexico. He
said that worms would not eat it nor
rest near it.
Major Bynnm says he and his neigh
/ bors have been experimenting with il
for eight years, and though they have
placed hundreds of worms upon it. they
would leave it hurriedly. One row has
been planted in a field and NIL the rest
was destroyed and tlIis left untouched,
It is similar in formation. growth, stalk,
plant, leaf and boil to ordinary cotton,
and the most careful expert eannot tell
the difference between il and other "a
rieties. Major BynGnn is Of the opinion
that ii came from one of the islands in
the Caribbean sea.
liz will become most valuable, for
crops will tlien be amenable only to va
siations Of the weather. Those INFER
ested are invited to the Democrat Office
10 inspect tho sample.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22
Getting into Debt.

Spurgeon says: "iIe is both Il fool
and knave who Las shilling coming
in, and OH the strength of it spends O
pound which does not belong to him.
Cut your coat according to your cloth IS
sound advice; but cutting other peoples
cloth by running into debt is as like
thieving as four pence is like a goat.
1t l meant to be rogue would deal in
marine stores, or be pettifogging law
yer, or a gambler, or open a loan office,
or 90 oct picking pockets; but wonld
scorn the dirty art of getting into debt
withouta prospect of being able to pay.
You have debts. and make debts still,
II you've not lied, lie you will"
Debtors can hardly help being liars,
for they promise to pay when they
know they cannot, and when they have
made up lot of false excuses they
promise again, and SO they lie as fast as
Il horse can trot.
"Now, if owing leads to lying. who
shall say that it is not i, most evil thing7
Of course, there are exceptions, and /
do not want to bear hard upon an honest
man who is brought down by sickness
or losses but take the rule as a rule,
and you will find debt to be a great
dismal swamp, huge mud-hole, a dirty
ditch happy is the man who gets ont
of it after once tumbling in, but hap
pest of all is he who has been, by Gods
goodness, kept out of the mire altogether.
IL you once ask the devil to dinner it
will be hard to get him out Of the house
again; better to have nothing to do
with him. Where hen has laid one
egg, she is very likely to lay another
when mau is once in debt, he is likely
to get into it again better keep clear OF
it from the first. He who gets i'll fol
n penny will soon be in for pound
and when a man is oyershoes, he is very
liable to he over boots. Never owe 4
farthing. and you will never owe 4
guinea"
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22
4 ,noat i.nnnr.ant real eatata sale has

A most important real estate sale has
been cunsummated. Mrs. Ellen BROOKS,
of Boston represented by MI. Henry
Sheplerd. has sold the battlire square ia
front of the Orleans COZ ION press, hound
ed by Wutev, Front, Tilii!a and Terpsl-
core streets, to the New Orleans and
Texas and Pacific Rai.road Company,
represented by Gen. G. NJ. bod &c. This
transaction secures to New Orleans be-
yond question terminus of the great
railroad at q locality most favorable to
her commercial interests. Ine great
cotton presses, the ship and steamboat
landings and other railroad freight de
pots are in close proximity /" me ST.
iected side, and thus will be saved time
aud cost in handling tho great bulk OF
products which the new route is aes-
tined inevitably to bring to this port.
The purchase price for thus square OF
ground we learn was $4,000, A year
ago. MIR. Shepherd refused $50, 600 for 1t.
1t is assessed on the tax rolls Of 1873 as
Square 8 A and 10 A, for $4,000, $1,000
and $500, q total for both squares of
$50 coo. On the rolls for this year and
subsequent to the reported bid of $780,
600 the assessment was reduced to Sl5,-
900, $500 and $500, 4 total OF 900.
Now that The Item has made public
these facts, the authorities should
promptly correct the grave errors COM
mitted so much to the public detriment.
When the road is finished. all the cot
ton presses and much other property in
the vicinity will bear pretty stiff in
crease in valuation for taxing PURPOSES
[City Item.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22
FIR the nurpose Of Determining the ca

For the purpose oftletermining the ca
pacity Of a horse to undergo the r.ips.-
tions incident to state OF siege,a series
of experiments have been made in Paris.
The results show that horse may
hold out twenty i've days without any
solid nourisbmert provided it is supplied
with sufficient good drinking-water !;
that horse can subsist for barely five
days without water and, thirdly, that
if horse is vel! ted tor ten days, but
insuf1iciently supplied with water
throughout this period, it will not out
live the eleventh day. A horse which
had received no solid nourishment for
twelve days was nevertheless in good
condition to draw load of six hundred
pounds on the twelfth day OF its fast.
Copper has been detected III the soil
OF cllurchyard, and i'll portions of ex-
humed bodies.
At Thebes, an ancient Egyptian pap
yrns roll containing treatise on medi-
cine HAS UeeU lOuUu.
1t has been recently discovered that
minute fungus will cause fermenta-
ton in a solution of glucose while 1t
does not affect that Of cane sugar. Ad-
| vantage has been taken of this fact to
separate cane sugar from moiasses, the
glucose undergoing fermentation, and
| thus allowing the cane sugar to crystal
| ize out
| II elastic gun is warmed, then expan-
ded and wound in spiral upon glass
| tube or wire and cooled for a short time
ia cooling mixture, it shows no ten
dency to contract, but when it is sub
mitted to hot terit returns quickly to
its original length. The phenomenon
! can also be made to appear without the
use of cooling mixture. If ono holds
heated gum !, second in an expanded
condition it shows no disposition to
return to its original length; but it one
| immerses it in hot water it contracts t.
one fourth OF one-tifth OF its
original iength. Maxwell has found
that similar phenomena are produced
in gutta percha.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22
Growth and Prosperity oIoUhe
SOatll.

4 Texas correspondent Of the New
Orleans Democrat says: IL,
read your figures and figuring sshe
other day in regard to the census Of 30,
with qualification. From your tabla it
appears tho South beat the North in Va
crease per cent. and thai, after all the
blowing, the North has only 100000
more people than the South. 1t will
have no excess at all in ten years more.
Texas will strike down at least 1900, 900
of the existing majority. And wben the
figures OF the material prog
ress of the two sections are
published you will show us facts
equally as gratifying and startling to at
leastlthe North. As in population, Texas
will show double her wealth Of 1870 and
twenty times the number of railroads
built. Talk of neat, smart little ma
chimes and cunning workers in brass"
but agriculture is the thing after all.
There is no chicanery about it. 1t is
not speculation. There are no false
returns, no chance to stuff its ballot
boxes. Any people who annually rake
down $500, 100000 for one item alone.
produced out OF the ground, which, we
do for cotton, are not To be despised as
paupers. In the next ten years this sum
will be increased to $500, 100000 per an
mum, with six times the number Of cot
ton spindles in operation We have now.
But the South can we'll afford to rest
her case and to feel proud beyond ex-
preston at the situation.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

A new scientific Instrument is the
"pluviometer,'' which registers the
quantity OF rain falling within certain
period, and the duration aud the hour
Of the fall,
The researches Of Prof. Quincke in
dictate that the change Of volume of
solid and liquid bodies under electrical
influence is not due to heat, for the
change produced in the volume of fatty
oils is one Of contraction. The same in
yestigation has shown that electricity
diminishes tho elasticity OF flint and
German glass, which is also said to be
tho case with India rubber, while the
elasticity Of mica and gutta percha is
increased.
7 A new method of producing light
from electricity has been patented in
England. Small balls OF platinum or
iridium are arranged at the ends of
small platinum rods enclosed in pairs
in the centre OF a suitable globe, and a
rapid succession of sparks is passed be-
tween them, whereby they are raised to
incandescent heat. A disadvantage is
the noise attendant on the rapid sparks.
A medical missionary has learned the
curious fact that Mongol doctors are
not entirely unacquainted with the
properties of salvanism. 1t is said
that they are in the habit of prescribing
pulverized loadstoDe ore for sores, and
man hard Of hearing was, in one case,
recommended to put piece of load
stone into each ear and chew a piece of
iron in his mouth
A dairying company of London has
lately established a laboratory at which
samples of milk received from farmers
are subjected to a chemical analysis.
Prizes have been offered by the compa-
ny, which are to be given to those far
mers whose milk supply stands highest
in quality during a stated period
Of time. The samples of milk are care
IWIif GAsllAIuCu W tHC COutpdIyS ana
lyst, whose analyses and reports will de-
eide the competition for the prizes. 1t
is expected that much valuable infor-
nation respecting methods for produ-
cling the richest possible milk will be
secured in this way.
Mr.. W. n. Lockington states that of
three hundred and eight species Of
fishes, mostly marine, occurring on the
Pacific coast, all but thirty-seren are
found in California. OF the fiye-lnn-
bred and forty fresh-water species
known in the United States, but thirty
seven are found in California.
According to a London Journal, the
grange speeks of the gasiights along
tho. Thames Embankment were seen
to shine dilnly through u recent fog
while the brilliant white glare of the
e)ertric lamps was indistinguishahle,
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22
Dueliing.
ST. Bernard Eagle.l

We are again called upon to chronicle
two more duels that transpirGtl last week
within our parish jurisdiction. They
were managed with seeming earnest
ness, but they ended as bloodlessly as
their dozen predecessors. The parties
concerned ia these transgressions upon
the peace and dignity of our sanity
parish, having, as or former occasions,
committed tho discourtesy of rendering
us complimentary tickets, to witness
their mode of healing wounded honor,
We will, as we have previously said,
omit the names of the actors, and not
till some accident takes place will we
mention the names of the party hurt.
The first duel was fought by two
well-known gentlemen of Terre-aux-
Beufs. The origin Of their encounter
in mortal combat was SO frivolous a
nature that the weapons selected were
commensurate. Broadswords We're the
choice, and these military tools were of
that sort used during the Revolutionary
war. However, they both appeared on
the field, accompanied by their friends,
aud apparently determined to go chop
ping aud slicing at each other; but the
termination would seem to Indicate that
they were either invuinerable to the
uull OluSiCs3 VI S4"eit ibSio:C Alul.
s-d'armes," Oh the distance held pro-
tected them from injury; they having
retired from the conflict unscratched,
without even feeling the unpleasant
sensation of un coup de plat
The second duel took place last Friday
in the rear OF the Stock Landing. We
learn the particulars of this affair
through al eyewitness. The combat
ants met in a delightfully."- appropriate
rendezvous, and fired at each other
with real pistols before going home to
dinner. 1tgiyes us much pleasure to
recommend strangers in search of
dueiiing ground to visit the Slaughter
house pastures, where they will find
every facility for the undisturbed en-
.joyment Of their favorite sport. There.
in some cool, sequestcred glade, beside
a sluggish flowing canal. o'erhung by
dropping willows; far removed FROM
scenes of busy stlife-saye where on the
far distant horizon the lofty spire of
Patton's factory vomits its curling in
cense heavenward-they can lay down
ON the emerald sward and fish or shoot
at each other all day long.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22

The full census returns for Louisiana
show a total population of 1868, of
which 46S,911 are males and All 1852 fe-
Thousand one hundred and nineteen arc
native and 54,f44 of foreign birth, and
s455, O63 white to 4S5, 200 eolored, the exo-
dus to the contrary Notwithstanding
lCity Item.
II few thousand of the females
would erodus, there would be more mat
'rimonial demand for those left. As it
is, they cannot all get married unless
the law should be mormonized.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22

"Sir,r says Ruskin, there is only one
way TO have good servants-that is, to
be worthy OF being served we'll. All
nature and all humanity will serve d
good master and rebel against an igno
BILE one. And there is no surer test OF
the quality Of n nation than the quality
of its servants, for they are their mas
ter's shadows and distort their faults in
a flattcned mmicry. A wise nation
will have philosophers in IFS servants
hall, a knavish nation will have knayes
there. and kindly nation will
have friends there. Only let it be Ie
membered that kindness means, as
with your child, so with your servant,
not indulgence, but care"
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22

It is strongly asserted that there
are ladies in the world who can
write a letter without the ineyita-
bic postscript, though no one Of this
class has yet been found after the
most diligent search. This asser-
ton was once matEe by George
Selwyn, and Lady Grey tartly re-
piled that her next letter should
retute him. \ few days atterward
he received the promised epistle, IN
viii ch after her 81 signature she wrote,
" 2. S.-Who was right, you or l +
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22

Thornton's circus, which was adver-
tised to appear here on Monday last,
failed to come to time, on account of
financial difficulties in which the con-
Germ became involved at New Orleans.
Owing to the bad weather which has
prevailed in this State during the past
three months, the proprietor of tue
show, Mr.. VIM. T. Thornton, has lost
considerable money on his venture, one
item in the list OF the seasons draw
backs being an enforced detention of
six weeks or more at Alexandria by
reason of the impossible condition of
the roads and the necessity for recupera-
ting the horses. Mr.. Thornton went to
Cincinnati and chartered steamboat,
upon which his show embarked, but
meeting with poor success and n con-
tinuation of unfavorable weather on his
way down the river, he sold out on
reaching New Orleans and skipped off
to his home in Indiana, leaving his
employees in the lurch, with large
amount Of back wages unpaid and most
OF them in a penniless condition. The
canvas and other appnrtenances of the
show have been seized on writs of at
tachinent sued out by some of the per-.
FORMERS, but it is reported that the
party who purchased the concern from
Thornton will endeayor to settle the
Indebtedness by compromise and reor-
game the circus for a tour through the
il4afuurche and Teclie regions and up
the Mississippi. While the action of
Mr.. Thornton in deserving his employees
was disrepntable and inexcusable-as
he is said to possess ample means to
settle all claims against hint is a
pleasure to us to say that no discrrdit
attaches in connection with the affair
to Mr.. Glen Davis, agent of tile show,
who was swindled with the rest of the
company and did everything in his
power to secure his companions from
loss.-[ Donaldsonville Chief.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22

THE POPULAR DEMaND.-So great
has been the popular demand for the
celebrated remedy Kidney Wort, that
it is having an immense sale from Maine
to California. Some have found it in
convenient to prepare it from the dry
compound. For such the proprietors
now prepare it in liquid form. This
can be procured at the druggists. 1t
has precisely the same effect as the dry,
but is very concentrated so that the dose
is much smaller.-[Lowell Mail.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22

= An advertisement of a good butcher,
appears in the Claiborne Guardian.
The butchers here are good enough, but
they give us very bad meat.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22

When the same property, in New
Orleans, that is assessed for taxation at
$4,000, is sold for $4,000, there should
be no complaint Of under assessment of
property in the country.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22

: 1t is estimated that there are 100000
acres cultivated ia cotton in the United
States and that the cotton crop Of the
world amounts to 100000, of which
about 100000 are produced in the Uni
ted States.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22

a married gentleman, every tie1ff,e le
met the father OF his wife, con,f,nlained
to him of the temper and disn.a55nsition of
his daughter. At last, upor, ono neca-
SION, the old gentleman, looming weary
OF tue grumallngs oshis son law,
excialmea !, % w.. right; she is an
lmpetuous jazz. j. .sli It / hear any more
co ..ler will disinherit her"
ne ne at made no more coia-
piMnts.-7s4 Scientific Man,
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22

"a According to the recent census, there
are in this State, 473 Chinese; $40 In
dams and half breeds, s half-Chinese !;
I West Indian, and East Indian.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22
DCBLIC SALE.
PROBATE COURT. PARISH OF ST. LANDRY,
ESTATE OF PELAGIE PRUD'HOMME,
DECEASED.

By virtue Of an order of the honorable Pro
bate Court. OF the Parish of ST. Landry, there
will be sold at public auction. to the highest
bidder. by the undersigned admins
traitor or any duly qualified anc-
tioneer, at the last residence OF the deceased,
in town OF Opclousas, parish of st. Landry,
on tt ESDAi. February 1st, 1881 the following
described property. belonging to the estate OF
Pelagie Prud'homrle. deceased, to- wit:
A certain half lot OF ground together with all
tho buildings and improvements thereon, sita-
ated in the town of Opelonsas, described as
being half of lot No. Is az per town plat OF
addition to the town Of
Opeinusas. bounded north by-street. east
by Court street south by the other half Of this
lot, belonging to Lrmel1e. west by lot No. Is OF
said plat. fronting on Court street. measuring
sixty five feet front by depth OF one hundred
and sixty niue :eet-being last residence of
decd, and being property purchased by her
from Solomon lazy by Act 9Th Feb. 1878, before
Jas. NJ. Thompson, Recorder.
CLINTON b. AEDRU8.
Jan list Administrator.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22

g It takes an exchange more than two
inches of space to tell ho,c to eat oranges;
with most people the trouble is how to
get them.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22


The coroner's report for the parish Of
Orleans, for the year 1880, shows that the
number of deaths that came under his
supervision were 1860, as follows In
January n, February 70, March SO, April
20, May 80, June s., July 81, August 1O5,
September 70, October 90, November
107, DecembeE 112. Of the whole num-
Der $40 were males, and 440 females ;
2s7 white males, and 161 white females 4,
1893 colored males, aud s79 colored fe-
males. 1876 were foreign born. and the
nativities of ID not statei-all the others
natives OF the United States. az Of the
deaths were by suicide, and all males
but one, and all foreigners but seven.
The financial condition of the Uunited
States is comparatively very healthy at
the present time. The paper currency
is practically on par with gold; and
the mercantile failures which increased,
both in number and amount of liabili-
ties from 1875. to 1878, have regularly de-
creased since the latter year. In 1875
the number of failures was 7,740, and
amount of liabilities s20l 100000; in
1878, the number was 1O,47s, and liabili-
ties S234, 1856, 900 ; ia 1880, the number
was 4.735, and liabilities S65,775a,000. In
Louisiana the number of failures in
1876 was IS, and amount of liabilities
SO .937, 1884 III 1878 there was an increase
to 1877 failures. and $3.50, 1862 liabilities /;
in 1880 the failures were 81, and the la
bilifies S7O6. 282.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22

According to the count at the Census
Office in Washington City, the popnla-
ton OF St. Landry parish 10 10000. Males,
20,534; females, 19,46S. Natives, 39,475
foreign born, 527. Whites, 2o,471 /; col
ored, 1851. The colored includes 1877
Indians
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22

The Princess Louise, daughter of
Queen Victoria, and wife of the Marquis
of Lorne, knows how to cook, and prac-
tees what she knows; that is more
than can be said of many of the prin-
cesses of republican America,
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22

The New Orleans Democrat, speaking
of the increase in the population Of the
South, as shown by the recent census,
says Tn the cotton States the negro
has increased little more rapidly than
the whites, while in the border or nom
cotton States it has been otherwise.
This indicates that the negro has been
moving Southwark during the last de-
cade, an interior emigration movement
of which the country was scarcely
aware" -
St. Landry democrat., 1881-01-22

OLD FoLKs.-Prof. VIM. A. Fowler,
editor Of the university edition of Web
ster's lictioeary, died in Connecticut on
the 18th inst, aged eighty-four years /;
and Judge Samuel Evans, of New Jer,
sey, on the 10th inst, aged ninety years.
!. For the year ending January 9Th, 1881,
6,t5O,0O0 hogs had been slaughtered and
packed in the Western cities, against
100000 the year previous. Chicago
stands at the head Of the list, with L.
$4,000 hogs; Cincinnati coming next
with 475, 900; then st. Louis with 100000.
Cincinnati should no longer claim the
name Of "Porkopolis"-Chicag is so
far ahead of her.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-05-24

A Newsy Letter from q sm.r, x.
Town.

Mrs. Mary Scales, daughter of Deacon w
Croweii Of this village and formerly organ
ist OF the Baptist church arrived home last
r rriday morning to remain all summer. She
went to Idaho about three years ago. partlv
ior her health and to visit some friends. and
returns, not only wife, but a mother of a
bouncing seven months old boy Evidently
,he western climate agreed with Mrs. S. Her
husband, Mr.. John Scales, went TO Idaho
from this village about dozen wears ago a
poor boy, but by inlomitable pluck and close
attention to business has amassed quite a for.
tune-Rev- j. w. Day. late presiding elder
OF the Rockland district. preached in the
Methodist church Sunday afternoon: the ser
mon was unusually interesting. Mr.. Dav
goes 10 Calais. Rev. Mr.. Boynton VIII, was
appointed to this circuit was not able TO get
here on account of the impossible condition
OF the roads. He will preach next Sunday
Inc annual meeting of the directors of the
Vassalboro' Woolen Mills will be held at the
mill Office next week W Wednesday. Hiram
simpson lost the end of his finger last Fri
day getting between a rolling shaft and bar
rel of sawdust at East Vassalboro' R. w
Mullen Post No. 33, G. A. R., Joins Heath
Post in a memorial service in the Baptist
church at Waterville next SUNDAY afternoon.
The cantata of Esther, which was rendered
last Friday and Saturday evenings. gave good
satisfaction. Mr.. Chase spared no pain. or
expense 10 make 1t success, but on account
OF the storm but few attended the first night
Mr.. C.. w. Novel; and family started for
West last Monday morning