Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-01-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

.A heavy storm, which lasted threo
days. occurred on the Pacific last week.
90. Boats are daily at work cutting
away the ice from the wharf at AeiI'
phis, Tenn.
The two survivors OF the ill-fated
Emily B. Souder arrived in New YORK
last week.
.The present years crop of wheat III
tho United States yields the enormous
total of APE, ZOO, 900 bushels.
| The new Massachusetts, State Prison,
at Concord, for which. was appropriated
81 ,OOO, 900, has cost S974,l55 al.
| ....Another heavy snow storm fell III
New York last week aud fears were en-
tertainel of another general blockade.
Hon. Gustav Schleicher, Demo
cratic MON ber Of Congress from Texas.
died in Washington OH the 9th inst, OF
pneumonia.
| ..Val.lerbilt, of New York, is to
build shortly u marble palace in the city
of New York, the cost Of which will be
about s2,ooo,ooo.
The Book Of Memoirs, by Hon. Jen'
Davis, is to be published next spring s'm
ultancously in New York and London,
with Il French edition in Paris.
The anniversary Of Gen. Jacksons
victory on the plains of Chalmete was
celebrated with much success by tho
Democrats of New York, Oh the 9Th.
..Louis Schneider, Pvivy councilori
} and the reader to the Emperor OF Germa-
| ny-in which latter capacity he was ire
, ouently called "Ilis Maiesty's Ear'-has
l. just died.
John w. Mackay the bonanza MIL
lionaire, has been sued for S2OO,Oo dam
l ages by Wm II. Smallman, who claims
that Mackey has injured him to that ex-
o tent by winning his wife's affection.
;, .-..Capt. Bogartlus, the crack MARKS
man, recently broke 5000 glass ballS
, without missing a single shot, at 1ii-
;, more's Garden, in New York, which IS tho
;, bess shooting he has yet done.
: ...For besotted Democratic state,
Indiana does very we'll in all educat'onaA
way. She has q school fund OF $9'ooo'-
81 900. The amount expended on PnDnc
is schools each year IS $4,0OO,oOo, and the
T, school property is valued at sl2,ooo'ooo.
Us 1.-The American Cyclopedia, which
III was issued four years ago at cost oi
s5OO.OOO before the manuscript was
~ handed to tile pr,ntels, has realized dur
m ing the past year upwards OF $A'ooo,ooo'
No. and since the publication nearly so'ooo'
70. 900.
i'm members of the New yofk CLAIR
lrs Der of Commerce have authorized the
- paiuting of a full length portrait OF john
en- Sherman in recognition of his agency III
wv bringing about resumption. Tho port
he rait will be placed beside that of Alex
he ander Hamilton, the first secretary OF the
til Treasury.
us Michigan has new State capitol
Sos The total cost of the building has been
gh 81, ,S45, 600, being Sl45, 600 in excess of the
I'd, amount originally appropriated. The
Ter work, so far as known, has beer free IRON
Ply iobbery, and the building contains one
lst third more room than the Illinois capitol
lle which has already cost upward CT ~,
he 600 900 and is not yet completed.
III .The statistics of the cotton crop o
ny the United States for tho last fifty years
LIS show that from total aggregate pro
ch. ,.. - ,,,. o1s con ,,.1es in 1920
OuCUlOn Ol stDOuG osojSSO DoASS 80 ~~o
S'y 80, the annual production has increased
ny to ASH, ,275 bales in the year 1878, o
10 all increase Of nearly five times durin
lon the fifty years -and this, too: notwltE
La standing the almost entire cessation
it's cultivation during the war, or trol
1861 to 1865.
NO ..--During the last years, scoordin
hoo to the director of tho Bureau OF Stats
no' tics, we have.been building railroads
''oi tho 1ate of 1924 miles per year. III
.r"e importation of railroad bars, both ire
io''' and steel, fell from 1921 tons in 1S7
'so- to IL tons in 1877; but the production
a., - iron and steel bars in tho United Stat
"'' increased from 1856, 141 tons during tt
,o'o five years from 1867 to 1871 to 4,Oo6,3
i'"N tons during the five years from 1873
1877, an increase of 81 per cent.
...Gov. Robeson, of n. Y, IN his annu
-, message to the State Legislature max
o'>' the following healthy exhibit of tt
States finances under Democratic 1ule
-'n The finances of the State are in mo-
~ satisfactory condition than for man
0no years past. There is now, no Gcner
'ro'' fund, county debt, or floating debt;
an have been extinguished; small rer
the nant of the canal debt alone remains
bo provided for. The total debt of tt
tAe State on September 80 last was SS,OOS
Po- OIL, reduction during the year Of 81