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Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-22


 Mrs. John McClaren, formerly of New Ha- ven, died March 1st, at Washington, Tolo county, California, where she had resided since 1849. The deceased was sister of Massena Clark, Esq. She married Captain Henry Thompson, 8 well known and popular shipmaster of New Haven in his time, who sailed for the Trowbridges and other houses in the West India trade, and afterward com manding his own vessel. In '49, some six months after the New Haven Argonauts went to California in the schooner Montague to search for the golden fleece, Captain Thomp- son caught the gold fever and Captain and Mrs Thompson embarked for California They went by ship from here to the Isthmus crossed the Isthmus on mules, and thence by steamer went to California Captain Thomp- son and wife went to Sacramento, the capital of California, and soon after their arrival there the captain engaged in pisciculture and as a wholesale fish dealer. He remained in this business until his death, quite number of years ago, residing just across the river from Sacramento. He owned lake which abounded in fine fish. and owned 13, ,OOO acres including the lake. Mrs. Thompson after ward became Mrs. McClaren or McLaren, her husband continuing the same business. Mrs. McClaren died after short illness She was visited about five years ago by Massena Clark and his son Frank, who remained at her home several days during their California trip. It was their first meeting after many years-over quarter of century. Neither recognized the other. MT. Clark knowing, however. who the lady was, having been di- rected to her residence, engaged her in con- yersation and made the inquiry if she would dispose of the lake for $25, 900, having heard that she had been offered that sum- The lady was not disposed to sell it for that sum, nor double, or triple that amount The negotia- tions being at an end the lady retired and Mir. Clark made himself known to her through her husband. The pleasant nature of the meeting may be imagined She was much attached to her California home, and lived to see Sacramento become city of note and importance and the capital of the State. Her husband survives her She leaves no children. MT. Massena Clark was a part owner in the Montague, in which some 51 men from New Haven, Huntington, Wal ingford and other places went to the golden State. Messrs. John Richardson, N. s. Eng fish of Fair Haven, and Stephen Perkins of Woodbridge, were also part owners of the vesssl.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-22

Pirates of Penzance, D whole opera, only 75 cents, at Steinert's Music store. m3tf
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12
Prurieplt Piety.
Country NisitOr.l


New Orleans boasts OF a highly moral,
high-toned state OF society, and should
any rash individual be so bold as to
galnsay the aictum, q thousand silver or
nickle- plated reuOlvers would flash IN
the sun and the imputation would be
Indignantly repudiated. In fact, we are
so pious that proposition to tax church
property in order to relieve the distress
of our poor householders, would be re-
ceived with bowls of execration. 1t is
understood that a rich and ilOurishing
corporation because religious) must
not pay proportlonate dues for the sup
port and government OF the city as does
the labor burdened mechanic. The
magnificent palatial establishments
which adorn our city, with their spread
ing lawns and neatly clipped shrubbery
and beautiful gardens, must not be
taxed, because they belong to some re-
igious order Or association. The
churches must not be taxed, although
they yield princely income. No! All
these must be free from burden, be-
cause they are "of the Lord" but the
poor artizan and laborer shall be ground
| down to dust, taxed beyond redemption
or his property forfeited-that these
pampered institutions shall live and
prosper.
They give nothing to the State, but they
suck our civic purse like an avalanche
of leeches.
Mexico and many European nations
have suffered from the intliction. But
they resolved to sever Church and State
Mexico seized the vast accumulated
riches of the Catholic Church, and APP
piled them to the welfare of the State.
Spain, Italy and other Kingdoms will no
| longer tolerate an unpatriOtic rapacity.
| Lonisianians! let every tub stand on
it's own bottom. If the churches are
sound, they will be supported by their
wOrshippers-if not, we wash our hands
of them, and the sooner they fall the
better for our community. AT any rate,
let all church property be duly taxed.
Pietists We are receiving and spend
ing the gains Of thieves-of gamblers
and prostitutes-to provide for our poor,
forsooth, to buy ''poor farm With
one or two disgraceful exceptions,
ours is the only State among civilized
nations that recognizes the wages of
prostitution, the stealings of gamblers,
and the swindling of lotteries, as legit-
innate sources of income.. And yet
this is the pious State that fears the
wrath of the Almighty by taxing church
property. Prob pulor! Haul down
your Haunting hypocritical flag; pro-
claim from one end of the Union to the
other that New Orleans is the swindler's
paradise; tell the world that vice reigns
here supreme, and is not confined to
the mere plebs, but our officials, the elite
of the people are always ready to "make
stake" and let us come down to the
naked fact, that New Orleans is as bad
ly governed and impure city as ma
nures the Southwestern hemisphere.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

LUMINOUS PauNT.-Something new
under the sun at last. A prepared
paint can now be procured, which has
been so mixed with phosphorus and
other ingredients that il becomes lumi-
nous in dark places. It is said most
surprising effects are produced when
this application is applied to the interior
of buildings. When the room or hall
is Swallowed or darkened, this weird
light makes its appearance, and the
most extraordinary effects are produced.
This paint, when put on windows, in
creases the light which comes through
the panes. It is said certain fashion
able honses in New York will have one
or more rooms in which this luminous
paint will be used to produce such
very startling and picturesque results
[Demorest's Monthly for November.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

HUNG BY A MOB FOR CHICKEN STEAL
ING.-A few days ago a colored man
named Ben Robertson was arrested and
confined to Jail in the town of Jeaner-
cite ON a charge of chicken stealing,
and during the night was assaulted,
taken out by mob and hung. The Of
Tense was not deserving of so grave a
punishment, and besides as he was in
the hands of the law, it was very fell
onious act, to say the least, on the part
of those who did the hanging. The
Coroner of our parish, DR.. 7. j. Woolf,
made an inquest on the body and gave
verdict in accordance with the facts
stated above.-[I Iberia Star.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AN1ERI-
CANIsTs.-In Madrid, on the 25th of
September, a congress of Americanists,
as they call themselves, commenced,
which lasted four days. The object OF
this body is to investigate ancient Amer
lea, that is to say, the congress wants
to give to the world all that is known of
the history of this continent previous to
it's discovery by Columbus. 1t is known
that many nations existed before the
time of Columbus, who had died out
leaving only few memorials. There
were the Mound Builders of the Ohio
Valley, who seem to have lived in
communities. There was race who
knew the value of metals, for the
copper chisels and hammers they used
can be seen to-day in the copper mines
of Lake Superior, as well as in the
turquois and bullion mines of New
Mexico and Arizona. Then it is
reasonably supposed that the North
men settled in New England in the
eleventh century. The old tower, to
be seen in Truro Park, Newport, is at
Leaf a thousand years old, and was not
constructed by savages, but by tool
using people who knew how to COM
pose mortar, were familiar with the
construction of buildings, and aware of
the value of the Roman arch. So far
the American people have taken but
little interest in the history of this
continent before the time of Columbus,
but the generations which are to follow
us are likely to be more curious about
the records of the land they live in,
than were their forefathers. The con-
gress in Madrid, by the way, was atten-
ded by some very notable Americans
From Demorest's Monthly for No
vember.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

A HANDSOME JEWELRY HOUSE,
Hero. Housah, the great discoverer of
the now celebrated indicated glasses,
which every body buys and praises,
has taken unto himself bran new
store at Sc St. Charles street, which is
much larger than the old one and a
palace in itself. The spacious show
windows are elegantly dressed after the
good taste of the excellent proprietor,
who fills them up with costly jewelry
and watches and diamonds Oh the one
hand, and the always welcome medi-
Gated glasses and spectacles and scien-
tific instruments on the other, all to
please and educate the public eye. He
has made good move to this stylish
establishment, which is we'll suited to
his large and growing trade. Success
to this excellent citizen and enterpris
ing Observation-Disclosures.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

Good cultivation will make corn in
spite of unfavorable seasons. We
notice to-day an account of field of
corn on poor land which yielded 25
bushels Of corn per acre, and stood a
drouth of over two months, and this
too without the use of any fertilizer.
But the corn was plowed we'll four
times and hoed once. A field of corn
adjoining this field, but on better land,
only yielded seven bushels per acre.
This field was only plowed twice and
not hoed at all. Corn will respond to
good culture. We have thought that
our farmers plant too much and do not
cultivate thoroughly enough. A small
er acreage better cultivated would
yield more corn than large acreage
with poor cultivation. Plant less and
cultivate better would be good motto
for many Of our farmers
claiborne Guardian.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

Go OUT DooRs.-The close confne-
ment of all factory work, gives the
operatives pallid faces, poor appetite,
languid, miserable feelings, poor blood,
inactive liver, kidneys and urinary
troubles, and all the physicians and
medicine in the world cannot help
them unless they get out of doors or
use Hop Bitters, the purest and best
remedy, especially for such cases, hav;
rosy cheeks in them. They cost but a
trife.-[ Christian Recorder.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

Bread is the staff of life, and for the
farm laborers in this part Of the coun-
try it is mainly cornbread. The corn
crop has been a partial failure every
where in the United States, and with
us not enough corn has been produced
to feed the farm stock well, leaving
bread out Of the question. That from
the West can only be had at a price
that our farmers are unable to pay.
Next spring, when mules and horses
need feed most, nearly all the corn will
be consumed. Our farmers should not
depend entirely on corn for man and
beast. just the other day we saw
as good oats grown in Faquetaique
prairie, as we ever saw anywhere; and
ever since the Germans settled there
they have had no difficulty in growing
good oats. Oats can be sown here, so
as to have Spring crop-to be har-
vested in April or May-any time, in
suitable weather from October to Feb
ruary. lie all our farmers will select
plots Of high land in their fields, and
SOW rust-proof oats the first favorable
spell Of weather, next spring they will
have plenty Of grain for their work
horses and mules; and oats are much
better than corn for animals at work,
especially in warm weather,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

"What place is that the good little
boys and girls in New Orleans want to
go to-" said the Sunday school superin-
tendent, who was DESTROYS of directing
the thoughts of the children heaven
ward. 81 know" yelled little Johnny
Tadsbury, as he wiped his nose on the
back of his hand. It's the pantry"
The superintendent then told the
school story about little boy who
went to Sunday school and behaved
bad, and when he got to be man he
murdered an old pie woman and was
hung.-[N. 0. Times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

A deputy United States Marshal
brought to this place last Wednesday
evening from below, and imprisoned in
our parish Jail, two colored prisoners, a
man and a woman, to be tried at the
term of the United States District Court
to be held here in January, the former
for robbing the mail and the latter for
perjury in attempting to collect pen
sion or bounty two times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
ORDER OF COURT.

TN accordance with act No. of the Legisla-
4 ture of Louisiana, approved February Goth,
fixed in and for the 18th Judicial District,
parish of St. Landry, for the calendar year
1882, viz:
LIST. A civil term beginning Monday. January
23d and ending Thursday, February Esd,
I'd. A jury term beginning on Tuesday, March
18th and ending Saturday, April sth. :,
Sd. A civil term beginning Monday, April
4th. A jury term beginning Monday, septem-
Der 18th and ending Saturday, October 4th.
5th. A civil term beginning Monday, October
9th. A jury term beginning Tuesday. Decem-
Der 5th and ending Saturday December 23d.
= GEO. w. HUDsPETH,
Judge 18th Judicial District of Louisiana.
A true copy: E. 8. TAYLOR, Dy. Clerk.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

The poor crops of the parish have
been gathered, which will fall far short
of paying the expenses incurred in
making them. The laborer finds in
stead of having dollars in his pocket at
the end of the year, that he is in debt,
and the question arises in his mind how
am l to live through the winter. The
only possible and sensible answer that
can be offered is to go to work, by
cleaning up land, splitting rails, and
improving the plantation.
The custom of frolicking and dane
ing through the winter, we are inclined
to think will have to be shelved,H
and necessity will force men and wo-
men, to hunt work of some kind to
make support till time to commence
working for the next crop. This is the
only and the best plan that can be
adopted, and will result in the pros
perity of the working class generally
columbia Herald.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12
Reform needed i'm the System of
Cotton Planting.
I Henry W. Grady, i'll Harper'S Magazine,

Henry W. Grady, III Harper's Magazine
The South must prepare to raise her
own provisions, compost her fertilizers,
cure her own hay, and breed her own
stock. Leaving credit and usury out
OF the question:, no mann can pay seven
ty-tive cents Il bushel for corn, thirty
dollars a ton for hay, twenty dollars Il
barrel for pork, sixty cents Tor oats, and
, raise cotton for eight cents a pound.
| The farmers who prosper at the South
are the ''corn-raisers,' /. e., the men
who raise their own supplies, and make
cotton their surplus crop. A gentleman
who recorded 800 mortgages last year
testified that not one was placed on the
farm OF man who raised his own
bread and meat. The shrewd farmers
hand with which to buy any good place
that is to be sold under mortgage are
the corn raisers," and the moment they
get possession they rule out the all
cotton plan, and plant corn and the
grasses. That the plan Of farming only
needs revision TO make the South rich
beyond measure is proven by constant
example. \ corn-raiSer bought a place
OF 80 acres for 81 700. He at once put
six tenants on it, and limited their cot
| ton acreage to one-third of what they
had under cultivation. Each one of the
six made more clear money than the
former owner had made, and the rents
for the first year were 81 ,12G. The man
who bought this farm lives near
Oglethorpe, Georgia, and has fifteen
farms all run on the same plan.
| The details OF the management Of
what may be the typical planting neigh
borhood of the South in the future are
furnished me by the manager OF the
CapeheaIt estate in North Carolina.
This estate is divided into farms of fifty
acres each, and rented to the tenants.
These tenants are bound to plant fifteen
acres in cotton, twelve in corn, eight i'll
small crops, and let fifteen lie in grass.
They pay one-third OF the crop as rent,
or one half if the proprietor furnishes
horses and mules. They have comfort
able quarters, and are entitled to the
surplus herring and the dressings of the
herring caught in the fisheries annexed
to the place. In the centre Of the estate
is a general store managed by the pro-
prietOr, at which the tenants have such
a line Of credit as they are entitled to, OF
course paying a pretty percentage on
the goods they bny. They are univer-
sally prosperous, and, In some cases,
where by skill and industry they have
secured 100 acres, are laying up money.
The profits of DR.. Capeheart are large,
and show the margin there is in buying
land that is loosely farmed, and putting
it under intelligent supervision. Of the
$50, worth OF land added to his estates
last year, at a valuation of twenty five
dollars per acre, he will realize in rental
nine dollars per acre for every acre cul-
tivated, and calculates that in five years
at the most the rentals of the land will
have paid back what he gave for it.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12
MaSCEILANEOU
List of Jurors.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,

STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish of st. Landry.
Be it known that we the undersigned mem
bcrS OF the jury commissioners did on this the
18th day OF October, a. ID. 1881, meet at the
clerks office i'll the town OF OpeloHsas parIsA ~
st. Landry for the purpose or drawing Ii jury
for the regular term OF the District Court vi
the Thirteenth Judicial District under section
act Al of the regular session Of 1877 and all the
members being present, +. j. LetebVre, one OF
said members, drew from the general Venlr1
box, one ut a time, the names OF the following
fifty persons to compose the grand and petit
Jurors for the LIST week OF said court comment
cling Tuesday, December 9Th 1881, Il list OF
whom was then and there kept by the Clerk
of Court James O. Chacherc, and in our
Judgment a jury being required for the second
week of the term, We then and there proceeded
as III drawing the first fifty jurors, to draw
thirty additional names to serve as petit jurors
for the ID week OF the term of said Court, and
we the clerk and commissioners did then anu
there place the names drawn as aforesaid for
each separate week i'll separate envelopes and
sealed and endorsed the same with the Week
Tor Which they were respectively drawn, winch
said envelopes containing said names Were
then and there placed i'll jury box provided
for the purpose, which after deposltlng SAID
names therein aforesaid was sealed amt
locked by us and placed i'll the custody OF tie
clerk OF the court Tor Use at the next term ..
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

NATURES SLU1CE-wAY.-The kid
neys are natures sluice-wap to wash
out the debris of our constantly chang
ing bodies: # they do not worlsprop-
erly the trouble is felt everywhsIe.
signs Of disorder get a package Of
It VIII clean the siai luce VI Of sand
grsys or n slime and .s Rp h the Thod
and dry, and It is equally efficient either
way.-[ Independent.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12
A prominent leather merchant o

A prominent leather merchant of
New York told a reporter of the World
the other day that America would soon
enjoy a monopoly of the manufacture
of leather, particularly of sole leather.
with which bark for tanning could be
obtained in this country. These barks
were very high in price in England,
mimosa costing so per ton there ;
valoma, brought from Italy, 800, and
myrabalam, from Japan, S125. On the
other hand, hemlock bark, the best in
use for making sole leather, costs only
SO per ton in this country. So great
was the difference in the cost of these
materials, that hides were now being
shipped from Great Britain to this
country to be tanned here. We first
sent the live animals to England, where
they were skinned and the beef eaten.
The hides were shipped back to this
country, converted into sole leather
and re-exported to England. Hemlock
bark has the effect of increasing the
weight of the hide considerably, so
that 100 pounds of dried American
hide made 175 pounds of sole leather.
The consequence is that dealers can
sell leather for 26 cents pound which
cost % cents in the hide. The result of
the cheapness of hemlock in this coun-
try would soon leave America, he said,
without rival in the world as tanner.
France might still continue to manu-
facture some of the lighter grades of
leather, but sole leather would be made
wholly in this country.-[N. 0. Demo-
crat.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12
Afew days ago the agent of the Lou.

Afew days ago the agent Of the Lou
isiana State Lottery, at this place, run
out Of tickets, and applied for more.
His order could not be filled as the
supply was exhausted, and there was
a general cry for tickets. One would
suppose that part of the constitution
endorsing the Lottery, was the most
popular feature in it.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

WHY ARE You BILIOUS ?-Because
Won have allowed your bowels to be-
come costive, and liver torpid. Use
Kidney-Wort to produce free state of
The bowels, and it will stimulate the
liver to proper action, cleanse the skin
Of its velloWness, cure bilious headache,
and cause new life in the blood. Drug
eists have it, both dry and liquid
[Zion's Herald.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

The present (probate) term of our
district court will conclude about the
Both inst, and regular jury term will
begin December 5th.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

1t may be right occasionally to take q
bull by the horns, but it is always we'll
to keep in mind that the horns belong
to the bull.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

An old angler says that a fish does
not suffer much pain from being
hooked. Of course not. 1t is the
thought of how his W eight will be lied
about which causes him anguish.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

Ayers Cherry Pectoral is a really re-
marlsable and time-honored medicine.
1t is the best remedy known for all
diseases of the throat and lungs.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12
OPELeUsAs, SATURDAY, yoyEHBER T., 1881

SERyIcEs.-At the Courthouse, by
Elder A. P. Scofeld, tomorrow at II
o'clock A. NJ. and 7:30 N.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-12

The cry for rain is no more heard in
the land-there seems to be no end to
it.