Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

last week.
go. In New bury, S. c., on the 18th
$50, 900 fire occurred.
Gen. r. H. Chiffon died very sud
denly, in Augusta Ga. on the 18th uit.
1.-The orange crop of Florida this
seas on is $4,000 barrels mere than last
year
----Jefferson Davis is now, since the
| death of Caleb Gushing, the sole suyvi-
| vor of Pierce's cabinet.
Old Zach Chandlar has been cleo
ted by the Michigan Legislature as Uni
| ted States Senator.
--.-A terrible landslide in Kansas city,
New, on the 10th ult., buried men ard
several teams alive.
1.-THE steamer A. C. Dona,lv was
burned on the 14th ult. She cost SAC, 900 :;
and was insured for $50, 900.
1.-The bonded debt of Texas is some
thing over S5,000,ooo, upon which the
annual interest is about $3.50, 200.
.-.- The Potter Committee have before
them 1000 pages of printed matter and
the evidence is not all in vet.
Mr.. Chas. Cavanac has been ap-
pointed registrar of voters for the city of
New Orleans rce Col. J. O. Landry.
1.-The tobacco bill, recently passed
in Congress levies a tax of 16 cents on
man anufactured tobacco and snuff.
----The Judiciary Committee, will
shortly report to Congress bill creating
Judicial District for North Louisiana.
-...Senator McCa>seEy, of Kentucky, is
SAID to have saved over $50, 900 of his
salary received during his six years of
senatorial life.
..-Terrebonne claims to be the ban
ner sugar Parish or the State. The crop
for the year 1879 is estimated at about
900 hossheads.
NV. S. Lynch, an unfaithful Ex.
press Agent. at augusta, Ca, came up
missing few days ago. Also $4,000 of
his employers funds.
1.-THE Senate Of the United States
after March 4th will stand rs follows:
Democrats AZ, Republicans 33, Indepen-
dents (Davy Eavis> l.
mir. J. H. Stanard has severed his
connection with the Baton Rouge Herald
and the paper will be run by Mr.. LaPierre
| as Editor and publisher.
----Fears are entertained that another
amputation of Gov. Wade Hampton's leg
will be necessary. HES life would be
greatly endangered by such an operation.
| Wade Hampton, it is said, will
soon marry Mrs. Pickens, the widow OF
Gov. Pickens, of South Carolina. The
wife of Senator Butler is a stepdaugkter
| of Mrs. Pickens.
| -...T Tho clergymen of the State of New
York receive $5,3lO,0 900 for salary yearly.
OF this amount the Methodist pay ST.
14O, 900, the Episcopalans $4,000. Tue
average clerical salary is $40.
| ----Senator Jones' bill to give the
railroads control of all telegraph lines
along their routes is meeting with vigor-
Gus opposition from tho Western Union
Company.
! IA native of Mars etises has purchas.
ed the right of extra citing chlorate of
potash from the dead Sea, ard expects
to net > 4 ton on an indefinite quantity
of it delivered ut London.
---The American navy, 1920 officers
to command $500 men. and paying
So, ,S22 900 annually to the former and
but S2,3OO,OOO to the latter, is, as Mr.
Blame remarked, 3 trile top-heavy.
The farmers in the northern part OF
Wilkinson county Mississippi, are hay
ing good deal of trouble, on account of
tho general exodus of the colored people
from that part of the county.
.Although the State of Illinois il
nearly out ofdebt under the restrictions
enforced by her New Constitution, ye
her Legislature proposes reduction O
, two gears.
| London, with its suburbs, within
the fifteen mi les radius of Charing Cross
covers O,6S6 square miles, and numbers
over 100000 inhabitants, of whom 81
per cent are country born. There is ;
birth in tho metropolis every four min
utes and Il death every six. There are
1000 1niles of streets, and 3 miles of ncv
! streets opened and 5000 new houses built
every year.
IA disease known as the black pla-
que, is now raging, with fearful violence
in the central part of Brazil. Over SOC, ;
600 persons have already failed victln,e:
to the dreadful malady and yet no sign:
of abatement are visible. The country i:
ali dried up; ret a vestlge of vesitatior
is left, while the inhabitants are forced
to go in the mountains and dig in the
gorges for water to drink.
IA report has lately been published
concerning the monument which Italy
desires to raise to the memory OF victor
Emmanuel 1t is estimated that TINS