St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-23
miscellaneous.

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Postage stamps cost one cent per one
hundred to manufacture.
Kansas farmers estimate corn at fifteen
cents bushel, which is cheaper fuel than
coal or wood.
!. San Francisco is now said to have a
population of 100000, including 10000
Chinese.
The Central Pacific railroad company
have ordered 700, 900 trees, to be set out
along the line of their road the coming
season.
The people of California are to vote at
their next general election upon the
question of continuing or prohibiting
Chinese immigration.
New York is suffering heavy loss of
revenues through the cigarmakers' strike
and the action of the liquor dealers.
: The deficiency will become serious if
continued for any considerable time.
In New York last year there were
one hundred and sixty-two suicides, ten
more than the preceding year. There
wero forty-eight homicides, and not a
hanging against forty-nine murders and
one execution the previous year.
Satin is nsw the rage. It went out Of
fashion in England twenty-five years
ago, when Mrs. Manning, a celebrated
murderess, at one time 1ady's maid tt
the late duchess of Sutherland, was hung
il black satin dress.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger OBJ
jects to the enactment of law by con-
gress imposing a tax on incomes, on two
grounds: First, because it is necessarily
inquisitorial, and second, because
straightforward, honorable people will
report the incomes honestly and pay the
taxes, while others, having less scruple,
or no scruple at all, escape either in
whole or in part"
The recent suit of Ira Melendy, Of
Bradford, VT, in which he received
$4,000 from the town for injuries suffered
in the highway, was singular one in
some respects. He claimed that his &C.
cident caused paralysis of his legs, sc
that they were dead as far as movement
and feeling were concerned. The defend
ant attempted to prove that he was
shammiDg. They called medical experts
stuck pins into his legs, made cuts and
applied ammonia and ether to them
without making him vince Or contract
his muscles. Some of the physicians
testified that such paralysis was an i'm
possibility, but the jury did not believe
that man could have sufficient nerve tc
stand such tests if there was any feeling
in the members experimental upon. He
will probably have to go through all this
again as the'case has been appealed.
The San Francisco Bulletin, comment
ing, in its financial column, on a dis
patch received from Washington, thai
over one million trade dollars have beer
shipped east the present month for do
mestic circulation, and that the suspen
sion OF the coinage of trade dollars a
the San Francisco mint is contemplated
says that, though some shipments hav.
been made, the amount is considerably
over stated; that the trade dollar has
market for silver in oriental countrie
which the fine silver cannot fill; tina
during the current months 1,746,7S,
ounces of silver have been deposited il
the mint, and half million of none,
will be deposited before the close of tn,
month. The reasons for these heav,
deposits arise from the apprehension OF
the part of bankers and bullion producer
that the dollar of 4l2s grains will b
remonetized, in WHICH event the facilitie
of the mint for silver coinage will b
severely taxed, restricting the means 70
the coinage of trades. Hence the dis
position to lay in a good supply
especially as this is the inactiv
demand season. The amount of trade
shipped hence to China during 1877 wa
$7,619,O0o. The article strongly .depre
Gates the suspension of the coinage @
trades at the mint in that city.