St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.


cago.
The bonded debt of New Orleans is
$18,8S7,1 100.
Louisiana will pay the July interest
on her consolidated bonds.
The Dallas Commercial is informed
that Texas immigration is falling off,
The whippibg-post is one of the issues
in the Dallas county. Texas, elections.
The rewards offered for Sam Bass, the
Texas train robber, dead or alive, amount
to $ll 900.
Eddie Lawhorn, of Mckinney. Texas,
aged ten years, has been arrested for
stealing and endeavoring to sell a horse.
The liquor dealers of New Orleans will
fight the MoAfett register all the way to
the Supreme Court.
The Richmond Dispatch figures it out
that the returns from the Mofet register
for the year, in Virginia, will reach
$326,401 Sc. -'....' 80 - -.
Gov. Hampton, of South Carolina,
boldly announces that he is in favor of
paying every dollar of the state debt.
There are more than 100000 acres of
cotton lands in Texas, which, if cultivat-
ed, would yield larger crop than that
produced in the whole United States at
the present time. Texas now raises one
fifth of the whole crop, and more than
any other State in the Union.
The Supreme court OF Louisiana the
other day opened with the same formal
ity prescribed by the chief justice last
year and then used for the first time.
At the usual hour the sheriff and clerks
attended the judges at their lodgings,
and all walked thence in procession to the
courthouse. The lawyers rose as the
judges entered, and each bowed to each
other.
A letter from Havana, says: the
campaign of the Spaniards against the
Cubans, without any battles, has cost
the former $4,000 men, and the island is
vast cemetery. Five vessels are on the
way from Spain to carry home the
troops. Martinez Campos had begun a
reduction of Government expenses on
the island by giving up one-half of his
own salary as Captain General.
A negro, who has just returned from
Liberia, tells the Aberdeen (Miss.)
Examiner his impression of the country.
He says: The climate is very unhealthy,
especially for Americans. Fevers are
very frequent and fatal. If you get
sick, the native doctors give you brush
tea, which kills eight out of every ten
Americans. The country is full of in
sects, the most troublesome being bug
resembling large ant, and travels very
rapidly, called the racer. They 60 into
houses at night after rain and give
person no rest, their bite being both
poisonous and painful.
Bolton (Texas) Journal: The court of
appeals having affirmed the verdict and
sentence of John Wesley Hardin, he will
60 to the state penitentiary for twenty.
five years Judge White, who rendered
the final decision, expressed a degree of
surprise that he had not been sentenced
to death in the district court. He said
that justice had not been melted out to
him; if it had he would have been hung.
Hardin is yet a young man, and may
possibly get chance to make his escape
and resume his career His term Of inn
prisonment will end in 1908, and he will
then be fifty-seven years old.
Houston, Texas, special to the st
Louis Glohe-Democrat: Sam Bass is
again back in his old haunts in Denton
county. Three of his brother robbers,
Underwood, Collins and Carter, are re-
ported to have left their leader in dis
gust, principally, it is thought, because
Sans money has given out. Jessie Peak,
Captain of the Rangers, has arrived
back in Dallas and says in the recent
fight with the Bass gang, in Wise county,
the robber Johnson was the only one that
showed anything like courage. In the :
fight both sides we're mounted, and when
the firingwas at its height one Of Peaks
men dismounted and laid down fiat on
his back on the ground, then raising his
knees he made of them a rest for his rifle
in the English style. Taking deliberate
aim at the bandit johnson, who was
seated on his horse, the ranger fired and
proved himself, d crack shot, johnson
uttering faint exclamation, and throw
ing up his hands, from which his gun
fell, tumbled out of the saddle and
measured his length in the shadows of
the HILL The balance of the robbers
escaped. --.-..-
Miscellaneous.