Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-02-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


| IN. Louis Joseph Martel has beer
elected president of the French senate.
1900 imprisoned French communists.
.--.Property valued at over 100000
was destroyed by fire in Birmingham
Conn.
1.-The Inauguration of Governo
Marks, of Tennessee, took pl ace at ash
vile.
1.-The pope's long circular agains
socialism and communism has been pnb
lished.
80. .Workingmen in Philadelphia have
over $40, 100000 invested in co-ope, ativ,
loan associations.
-.-.Commodore John Guest, command
ant of the naval station at Portsmou III
N. H., died tho other day, aged tifty-siS
years.
----The British troops have occupied
Candahar, the capital of Atshanistan, {:
fortified city containing about 100000 in
| habitants.
The total railway interest of this
country, it is estimated, represents a val
ne of S6,CO0,O00, 900. that Of Great Br-
tain $1,000, 100000, Germany $l,oOo,cOO,-
900, and France 10000 900.
--..At a convention to form national
militia association, held in New York,
delegates from thirteen States were pres
ent, and an organization was effected by
electing General Barney, Of Rhode Is
land, chairman.
80. Mr.. w. w. Corcoran, an artist of tho
city of Washington has kindly donated
to the State of Louisiana, a magnificent
painting of the battle Of New Orleans
The picture has been placed in our Cap
itol.
IA Naples journal asserts that there
are members of the Parliament at Rome
who literally do not know how to read or
write, and that corruption and n.edio-
Gritty are the charac teristics of the entire
body.
----According to a report presented to
the final meeting Of the Centennial COM
mission, at Philadelphia, the gross re-
ceipts of the exhibition were S11, ,16l,( Ill.,
55, and the expenses to date $40, ,997 9SO,-
SO, leaving a cash balance of $163.62O,-
96; $3, 49,, ,29O was taken at the gate.
1.-The failures in the United States
i'll 1873, according to Dun g. Co., New
York a ,ency, were 10,475, as against g.
572 in 1877, showing an increase in the
past year of 1,6O6. The liabilities for
1873 equal s234, 100000, compared with
$3.50, 900 in 1877 an increase in the
past year of $4O,OOO,OOO.
IA clergyman speaking at funeral
bewailed the loss of many great men,
such, for instance, as the deceased in the
coffin before him, and said that none like
them were left to us. A strong-minded
old Methodist sister startled both speak
er and audience by exclaming, "Bless
God, that's a lie !"
----St. Louis has q free lodging house,
where from 300 to 600 persons, mostly
tramps, sleep every night. A new rule
is that every lodger must be vaccinated,
and Oh the first night of its enforcement
the physicians operated on nearly 400
arms. Many objected, but the alterna-
tive was a night in the streets, and as
the weather was bitterly cold, none
chose it.
lone Hermann Shullper was !lately
to marry a young girl in the
environs of $23, 400. All the preliminary
tormalities having been carried |
out, the young lady's father con-
fided the dowry to Shullper on the day
before the wedding, that he might in
vest in a project which he seemed en-
thusiastic upon. The result was that |
Shullper boughta steamer ticket for New
York, and decamped by railway that |
light for Havrc. By means of the tele-
graph he was arrested at Strasburg.
----Another large irewith heavy loss
es has been added to the list in New
York. -Four massive iron buildings in
the heart of the region occupied by |
dry goods houses were destroy !
I'd by the flames, causing an aggregate |
oss to nineteen firms variously cst:ma-
ted at between 81 100000 and 50, ,OOO,OOO !
At one time it was feared the immense |
structure occupied by H. B. Cla1lin &.
Co., the largest wholesale dry goods |
house in the city, would succumb, but |
the building was saved by the cNertions
of the firemen. Fifty thousand people
hurried to the fire, which was visible
from all parts of the city.
MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE