The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-12-30
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Two thousand cotton weavers
are on q strike in Philadelphia, Pa.
1t is proposed to abolish the
grade of Commodore in the United
States navy.
The number Of Home Rulers
elected from Ireland will approach
about sixty.
Gratitude, tender plant sown
by kind deeds, does not thrive in
cold hearts.
1t is probable that the form of
government in Spain will be declared
by a plebiscite.
The Catholics have joined in the
new temperance crusade at New Lex
ington, Ohio.
"A measure providing for chap
lains in the French army has passed
the Assembly.
"A war between Japan and Corea
or q civil war in Japan is considered
imminent.
The Maine Senate voted Is to II
to abolish the death penalty. Four
Senator's were absent.
The Commissioners of the Gen.
tennial Exhibition have abandoned
all hope of Congressional aid.
What length ought lady's pet
ticoat to be?-A little above two
feet.
When girl falls in love with an
unlucky Irishman, her heart always
goes pity-Pat.
The California flying machine is
expected to skim along at the rate of
ninety miles per hour.
There is time for all things.
The time to leave is when young
lady asks you how the walking is.
The Iowa Legislature has fe
male postmaster, female engross-
ing clerk, and a female paper folder.
The British Foreign Office still
entertains doubts as to the truth of
the reports Of DR.. Livingstone's
death.
"A large number of soup houses
have been opened in New York, and
the poor are focking to them in
crowds.
During 1873 the Five Points
House of Industry, New York, dis
bursed $1S.s36 in charity and $751;
900 to disburse it.
Over one-half of the saloons in
fourteen towns in southwestern Ohio
have been closed by the new move
nent.
Miss Brawood, an American Ia
ly, has climbed 1861 feet to the
summit of the Jungfrau Mountain,
in Switzerland.
The Montana Legislature has
appropriated $4,000 to facilitate che
exhibition of Montana products at
the Centennial Exposition. I
In Tirhoot, India, of the popula-
ton of four millions, one-third have
lost their harvest entirely, and ano-
Their third have lost half
A tract of land in Missouri con-
tanning 10000 acres has been bought
for party of French emigrants, who
are about to settle there.
Some of the New York societies
propose to dispense with the st. Pat
rick's Day parade this year, and give
the money save | to charity.
The Kansas grangers favor the
passing of prohibitory liquor law,
and declare that liquor dealers will
not be admitted to their order.
The President has bought a LOT
in Washington for $4,000 on which
he will build house to live perma
nently after leaving the White House
"A Yankee Milkman of Worces
ter, Mass, has been fined $50 and
costs for having in his possession
milk adalterated with twenty pei
cent. of water.
Iowa raised more wheat in 1879
than any other State in the Union.--
She did the same thing in 1872. Ir
the item of corn she is only secont
to Illinois.
The Judiciary Committee Of thu
House of Representatives has report
adversely on petition of clique o
bigots to "put God in the Constitu
tion."
Rhode Island in spite of it,
small size, does good divorce bust
ness. Seventeen applications were
recently made in one court in singl,
day.
"A Catholic hall will soon b.
erected n Liverpool, England. I