Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-01-11
GENERAL NEHTS ITEMS,

in New York.
The plague has again appeared at
Astrachan in Russia.
Shreveport had 10000 Ere during
| the latter part Of last month.
The Southern Pacific railroad will
| reach Maricopa Wells in May next.
The American National and Cont
mental Bank Note Companies have COLI
solidated.
| 1t is rnmored that Russia has con.
| sented to tho payment of the Turkish in
! dcmnity i'll paper roubles.
-Archduke Rodolphe, Crown Prince
of Austria, will shortly be betrothed to Il
niece of the King of sa1ony.
The Yellow Fever Relief Committee
of Cincinnati, report tho total contriSu-
tions of that city to be $66,776 g..
A rich strike of silver has occurred in
the Dunderberg, Colorado, mine, which
runs two thousand ounces to the ton.
Gen. Grant IS now in Ireland, strik
ing for the vote of that nationality in
this country, in 1880. He will find it no
60.
The Saratoga, the third of the steam
ships built in the United States for the
Russian government, sailed for Copenha-
gen on the lst inst.
Earnest Delacourt, man about 35
years of age, is now in the Wards Island,
N. Y Insane Asylum, for falling in love
with tho pretty daughter Of his wealthy
employer.
The Emily B. souder, the vessel said
to have introduced tho yellow fever into
New Orleans last year, was foundered at
sea u few days ago. Only two survivors
have thus far turned up.
The German government has instruc-
ted her consul at Tunis to support tho
demands of France made upon the Tuni-
sian government for the illegal seizure of
property held by Frenchmen.
Ten persons broke out of the Ana
mosa, Iowa, Penitentiary on the Sd inst.
One was shot dead, another was wounded
and will die, two more were wounded in
the leg, and five or six others captured.
BY the premature explosion of sand
blast near Tarrytown, recently, two men
lost their lives. The head of one was
severed from the body, and the body of
the other impaled upon the broken limb
of q tree.
Canada is constructing link of the
Pacific railway which will tap the wheat
growing areas of Manitoba and the North
west, and provide a short route for tho
transportation of the grain to tho sea-
board.
Tho decision of the faculty of tho
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
in dismissing DR.. Winchell because Of his
views on evolution, has been emphatical-
ly approved by the Methodist Episcopal
Conference of East Tennessee.
Five chiefs of the Ute Indians are on
their way from Colorado to Washington.
to consult with the Interior Departments
relative to the sale to the Government OF
u strip OF their reservation said to b.,
q valuable mineral district.
"A dispatch from Yokohama says the
steamer Tokushima Maru, running be-
tween Osada and Diva, was totally des-
troyed by the explosion of a quantity OF
of gunpowder that was in her cargo, and
persons were drowned.
At Junction City, Texas, Tom Doran
and Louis Temple recently fought duel.
Doran killed Temple. The latter's father.
then pursued Doran, shooting him twice
fatally, stabbed the body eleven times
and then cut the throat from ear to ear.
The suit against the government
brought by the heirs of Stephen A. Doug
las, for certain cotton captured by the Z.
S. Government, in Mississippi, during the
war, was settled in the Court Of Claims
on the Gath ult., by judgment in favor OF
claimants.
The annual review of the live stock
market of New York for the year 1878,
shows an increase in the volume of trade
and in the receipts of cattle, sheep and
hogs as compared with last year, of 3d.
154 beeves, 14l,C35 sheep and 511,157
hogs, and compared with totals twenty
years ago the increase is 33S,l91 beeves,
792.796 sheep and l AIS, ,661 hogs.
At a meeting of the Sons of Liberty,
in Jersey City, N. Y, on the 30th ult., q
resolution was unanimously adopted
pledging the members of that body to
the destruction of the proposed monu-
ment of Maj. Andre, the English spy,
within three months of it's completion,
and for tEe failure to carry out the same
they offer their lives, liberty, etc., as =
forfeit.
A bloody tragedy is reported near
Heoche, in the vicinity of Shreveport
Wiley Holmes, married to a sister of Ben.
Talbert, had some family misunderstand-
ng with his Srother-in-law. Both hap
ened out hunting deer, and met on the
Dad. Talnert ordered Holmes TO halt.
nd aimed his gun at him. Holmes rails
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