Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-02-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


by the Mexican Government is now read,
for distribution.
The case of the United States vs.
George A. Sheridan, has been decided il
favor of defendant.
| There is little doubt as to the earl,
confirmation of Badger as Collector of th,
Port at New Orleans.
-kearney and his party care becomins
troublesome in California They will
shortly be suppressed.
| "A California colony, with specia
view to fruit growing, is organized t,
start out from Buffalo, N. Y.
| The ice packers of New York hay,
already stored 100000 tons, ut Pou-
keepsie, for sale next summer.
Richard Henry Dana the poet and
essayist, died in Boston q few DAYS ago
at the age OF ninety-three years.
More pork has been raised in East
fellclana Parish during tho past year
than at any time since the war.
"A dispatch from Rome states that a.
basis OF agreement between Bismarck
and.the Vatican has been agreed upon.
New Haveu, Conn.,, claims. that the
hrst hard money coined in this country.
copper cent, was made there in 1857.
len Thousand Liverpool laborers are
now on strike, and ten thousand more
are out OF work on account of the scare
ity.
Seven thousandl miners are idle in
the county ofDurham, England. The dis
tress there has not been equaled since the
year 1914.
"A Paducah. (Ky.) paper saws mon
ey IS so scarce in that place that even the
change in the weather is hailed with
pleasure.
-Ihe Governor of Kentucky has been
order the: State militia to
assist in collecting the obnoxious rail-
road tax.
The agricultural interests of ENGLAND
are endeavoring to induce the Pr,vy
Council to schedule the United States as
an infected country.
-Wm. f. Merricl1, who murdered his
wife, and John Achey the slayer of a
brother gambler, were both hung in In
~POAAo, ~ 40 " utkS dSO.
-Robertson's Levee Bill, providing for
the improvement ofthe lower Mississippi.
has passed the lower House of Congress-.
and probably by this timeEhas become a
law.
1T is a pleasing fact. to note that our
relations with Mexico are ."dailv increas-
ing and that better feeling row exists
between the two nations than ever be-
fore.
The committee appointed TO exam
Inc into. the affairs of Archbishop Pur cell
OF Cincinnati, have discovered evidences
Of his indebtednesssssto the sum sof one
million dollars.
On Friday last, four men in a sail
boat, opposite New Orlars, were met by
l steamer, and .their. boat capsized. Two
of the men were drowned while the other
Two swan ashore.
California leads among the wool pro-
1ucing States, Ohio second and Texas
'hird. Mercer County, Texas. has more
sheep in its limits than any other coun-
y in tho Union-656, 900.
-Generel Albert Pike is now enrar-
I'd in organizing the "Knights of the
Cactus," to be composed of the veterans
IT the Mexican war, and the order to de- |
'cend to their male children.
In Amite County, Miss, three negro
boys recertly took another negro boy,
Ind while two of their number held him |
'he third one blazed away at him with a
pistol, the ball passing through his ear
md lodging in his temple.
Cattle shipped to Liverpool from the
United States have been examined and
ound to be perfectly healthy. 1t is only
he cattle from Canada that are diseased. |
United States cattle are permitted to be |
old in the markets.
-IE the constitutional convention
here will be 36 Senatorial deleyutes and |
nd 96 Representative delegates. In all,
% delegates; who who will be entitled
0 an aggregate per diem of $31, $50, and
n aggregate remuneration for travelling
expenses of $4,000. Each individual del
gate Will be entitled to $500, if The con-
ention is in session 60 days.
JAS. Crown and w. l.. Scott, two Re-
have just been convicted of
allot-box stuffing, in Pittsbuag, Pa,
nd are to be punished for the same. Also
.oush. Democrat, for the same offeuse.
they had committed tho crime in LOU
ian, instead of going to prison. they
ould have each good, paying office in
10 Federal service. :
Tho Teller Committee presented a
stition of the colored people of Louisi- {
Ia, complaining that they are not pro- c
cted either in life or propertyr that at s
10 recent election they were met by Il