Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-04-05
NO. 40.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

isR to 40.
.-..Public schools are in operation id
Iberville parish.
ganized at Morgan City.
-.--S63, ,424.23 of State debt was fund
ed on the 10Th of March.
1.-The standing bail for murder in
Dallas is said to he $500.
49,. Hydrophobia has broken out among
the calves at Waco, Texas.
The Texas Legislature is wrestling
with Il bill for the suppression of trancps.
--.-Steps have been taken to organize
Young Mems Christian Association in
Mobile.
-.-.A fire in New York city, on tho
18th u!t., destroyed Sl53,O00 worth Of
p operty.
IA dispatch from Pesth saysan afflu-
cnt of Keros river, has burst it's dye and
inundated large territory.
1.-The School Board of St. Mary Par.
ish nave appropriated Sl2v0 to build q
public school house at Morgan City.
.--- The Augusta, GA. canal is the big
gcst work in the South, and the largest
canal for manufacturing purposes in tho
world.
....The revenue derived hy the United
States for the year ending Juno 80. 1873,
from the tobacco tax in all of its forms,
was Sl0,09!,S ,S42.
Highway robbers are abroad in
snme parts of Texas. Near Ferris, a few
days ago a pedlar was relieved of $2740
by two knights of the road.
-.-In the case of the State vs. J. II.
Burch, charged with embezzlling tho
school funds of East Baton Rouge, tho
.jnry failed to agree, and BuIch is conse-
quently free.
1.-Two convicted negro murderers
were hanged at New Kent Court House,
Va, last Tuesday and on the same day
a negro who ravishcd 4 white child was
lyuched at Pakucall, Ky.
IAN election is TO be held in the
Sixth District of Texas on the 18th OF
April. for a member OF Congress to fill the
vacancy in the House resulting from the
death Of Hon. Gustave ScIeicher.
----As q financial operation the late
Paris Exposition was far from being q
success. The expenses aggregated 55,-
100000 francs, while the receipts were on
ly sc, 100000. Philadelphia made bet
ter showing.
--..Not mauv years ago the value Of
| the silk manufacture Of France was far
| in excess of that of worsted, but the lat
ter is now of more value than the former.
| The total value of the worsted industry
in Franco is 81 100000 nearly half Of
which is exported.
"A very fatal disease has broken
ont in Scott couiity, Mississippi, between
sFillsboro and the county line, which is
prcrounced hv the physicians as black
| measles, and by fhc negroes rs the black
plague. It is very fat.l-not single
case having recovered.
1.-THE present boundary Of the north:
! established twenty eight years ago, dur
ing which period there have been nine
teen British expeditions to CONTROL the
ncghboring inhabitants, requiring tho
| employment af 900 men.
-..-The name Lent is derived from
| Il Saxon word sigufyiug spring, the sea-
son Of the year when it occurs. Tho
| length OF time ofthe observance has va
rioa, first having been forty hours and
| then thirtysix days. Four days were
added in the ninth century, making, as
at present, forty days.
--..Geo. w. Dupre attacked II. W.
Green on the street, III New Orleans;
with a,wa!lling stick, on the 22d inst.
inilicting several blows before they were
separated. Mr.. Green had been Oh expert
! on the part of the State III tie matter
out of which grew the indictment ct Mr.
| DUpTc.