Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-01-04
GENERAL NEVIS ITEMS.
"A small fire in Woodville, Miss, on

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where liquor is sold.
----The month of December, just pass
ed, had five Sundays.
The West Baton Rouge Sugar Plat
ter is twenty years old.
1.-The Mississippi river is reported as
! on the rise at Baton Rougc.
lin the State of Texas, the county
tax IS two mills on the dollar
Col Fred. A. Aiken, city editor of
the Washington POST is dead.
IA $4,000 fire is the latest. excite
, ment announced from Gardner, III.
80. .Bilingsgate, the great London fisI.
market is to be lighted by electricity.
IA cable telegraph line from New
York to France is among the probabilities.
| -. The floor of the Pantheon at Rome.
was recently flooded with water by rise
in the Tiber.
IA bronze statue Of the late Charles
Sumner was unveiled at Bost on, Mass,
OH the 23d ult.
| IA storm at Aspinwall, in South
America, destroyed property to the
amount of 100000 recently.
| The Marksvil!c Bnlletia is in favor
of Gov. f. 7. Nicnolls for the position OF
| U. S. Senator from Louisiana.
----SiX candidates for the Mayoralty
| of Woodville, Miss, announce themselves
| in the Republican of that place.
IA Pennsylvania confectioncr has Il
sugar elephant, not exactly on his hands,
but in his shop, that weighs 800 pounds.
1.-The newsboys of the Crescent City
were treated to Il splendid dinner OH
Christmas day, at their Home, in that
place.
The weather throughout the North
ern States is reported as more intensely
cold than has been experienced for sew.
eral years.
----Four members of the New iIork
st ok Exchange were recently expelled
bank shares.
----Gen. Grants residence in Washing
ton city, which cost $25, 900 for construc-
tion. was recently purchased for $4,000
by an Ohio lady.
--.- Frederick Foster Quin, noted
physician of Edinburgh, and the attend
ant Oh the royal family of England dur
| inf illness, died recently.
----Carriage and other work horses are
now shipped from Kentucky to Egypt.
They are deemed superior to the Arabian
animal for domestic use.
1.-The largest amount of insurance
carried on Il single life is $4,000, 700,
which is the sum of the policies issued on
the life of the Earl Of Fife.
----Hull, the Democratic candidate for
Congress from Florida, has finally re-
ceived. his certificate Of election. His
majority was only thirteen.
1.-The executive committee on miIitia
reorganization have decided to call &,
national convention to meet in New
York on the 18th of this month
1.-THE trial of Capt. Schwcnscn and
the officers of the steamer Pomcrania, in
Berlin, recently, ended in their acquittai
of all blame for the loss or the vessel.
1.-The Governor of Galisco ordered
the troops to fire upon 4 mass meeting OF
citizens protesting against an eXtraordi
nary tax. Five merchants were killed.
----Governor Hampton, the Democrat
ic Senator elect from South Carolina, has
almost entirely recovered from the Sc
we're mental shock Inflicted by his recent
fall from Il mule.
-Scnator Eustis delivered an able
speech, in the Senate, in support of his
bill to appropriate money for the rebuild
ing of the levecs in Louisiana, Mississippi
pi, Arkansas, etc.
----There is some prospect of n passage
at arms between France and the govern
ment of Tunis, growing out ofthe seizure
Of territory in the possession of tho
French, by the Tunisan powers.
----The diamond merchants of London
have built q palatial clubhouse, where
business and recreation arc both combin-
ed, it being customary for these dealers
to carry fortunes on their persons in an
ticipatioh Of trade.
----The business of the New Yo k clear
ing house has amounted, in twenty five
years, to to five. hundred thousand mil
lions of dollars, and it is said there has
not been an arithmatical error of one
cent in the whole of its transactions.
The political oot, which boils with
such intensity in South America gen.
orally, has begun to simmer. About
twenty-five Presidents of Republics are
to he elected this month, and it would not
be surprising if as many were assassinat-
3D.
----Gorham's Republican COMPRESSION.
u Committee, it now turns out, has fol-
owed in the wake of corruption, which
ave the Radical party such prominence.
pd used $40, 900 belonging to the patent
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