St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-30


Gen. Grants daughter Mrs. Sartolis
is not dead as was reported.
The Quebec rioters are quiet, but
they still hold the city.
Some German writer's are advocating
executions by electricity.
An obstinate man docs not hold
opinions. They hold him.
The fat men of New Iolk have had
their yearly claim bake. Some Of them
weigh All pounds.
The chapel of the Ursuline convent,
built in 1880, is the oldest place Of wor-
ship i'll New Orleans.
The three great rulers OF the world,
Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon were
all beardlcss men.
The population Of Kansas is s49,91S
a rapid increase from 1915 when it
numbered 52S,4311.
Joe and Charles Berry caught Il gar
fish ID Red River which measured SIX
and IL half feet i'll length
Yellow fever Oh the increase in Mem
phis, and several cases in the quaran
tine hospital at st. Louis.
About the 10Th of September will
be held in Paris /, convention composed
of the representative Islaelites.
The late Gov. Jno. A. Dix said that
four tifths OF the crime in the country
is attributable to Intoxicating liquors.
The Iberia Journal calls upon soldiers
of 1870 to present themselves and claim
the 100 acres they are entitled to.
The common phase "too thin" was
good English more than century ago.
Smollett uses it in his Peregime Pickle.
The Republican leaders in this State
are working hard to induce the bond
holders to refuse the terms offered them
by the convention.
The latest mania among English
ladies of the upper classes, is tattooing
their legs. Coming back to barbarism
isn't it.
Argentce i'll Arkansas, according to
tlfp Little Rock Gazette, is IL drunken
town. 1t is said that OF an evening the
drunken men can't be counted.
The colored eXcursionists who went
to Kansas lately to sec how the land
lay have returned to Mississippi and
will discourage further immigration to
the West.
They are coIoring coffee with chrome
green and Arbuckle q Bros, one of
the most extensive firms of coffee dealers
in the United States, are exposing the
ubiquitous practice.
There are two ways Of going through
the world. One is to make the best of
it, the other the worst Of it. Those who
take the latter course, work hard for
small pay.
The famine in China is terrible. The
people are eating their own children
aud n the Northern districts whole
sections are depopuiated the inhabitants
having perishcd for want OF food.
"Alas," he said, "the summer is
waning, the frost is coming and it will
kill all green things" She extended her
hand and sympatheticalIy exclaimed,
good bye!"
Alcohol was invented $50 years ago
in Arabia. Ladies used it with Il powder
to paint themselves. In the sixteenth
century distilled spirits spTeal oyer
Europe.
The Shreveport Times says DR..
Frierson, who is one of the best planters
in DeSoto parish, recently divided his
corn crop with 9re ct his best hands.
They had two ears apiece.
The Republicans in Ohio are getting
in muss with their negro supporters.
The whites won't give them office and
darkies ask wherefore, 60 ahead 0hio
and settle the vexed question OF social
and political equality.
A sigular race of people called the
Ishudi have been discovered by Prof.
Mordenskjold in the nortfeastern part
Of Siberia. They are small with yellow
skins, coal black eyes and hair, and q
jayless expression of coHnten-
lnce. IT, " .
Houston has quarantined against Gal
weston the latter city having admitted
5he steamer Colorado against Houston's
protest. Galveston onght not to object.
She serves New Orleans in the same
way. .E.s-
Disastrous storm on the Atlantic
Coast on the 10Th inst. Velocity of wind
miles from north and north
east. Much shipping destroyed and
5he city of Norfork, Va, injured by the
tornado. The loss is estimated at $780,
300 from destruction of buildings.