Feliciana sentinel., 1879-04-05
NO.. 49,
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

State cousuls Are quoted at from
4s3 to 40. :.
puhlic schools are in operation IN
Iberville parish.
IA Skating Association has been or
canized at Morgan City.
1858 4o4 90 of State debt was 1uno-
ed on the 10Th of March.
.The standing bail for muroer ia
Dallas is said to he $500.
Hytlrophobia has broken out among
the calves at Waco, Texas.
The Texas legislature is wrestling
with a bill for the SUPPRESSION OF tran'Ps.
Steps have been taken to organize
a Young Mems Christian Association III
Mobile.
A FIRE in New York city, on tho
9th u,t., destroyed S153,OO0 worth o1
operty.
"A dispatch from Pesth saysan afiiu-
ent of Keros river, has burst its aye anu
innudatcd a large territory.
The School Board of st. May Far
t ish nave appropriated Sl2UO to bulid q
, ,u,,lic school house at Morgan City.
, The Augusta GA. canal is the big
| ,-pGt work IN the SOutH diANt '"o
; canal for manufacturing purposes III tno
o world. ,...
G The revenue derived hy the United
States for the wear ending June 3O. 1876
= ,,o,,, the tobacco tax in all Of its forns'
J. was $40, ,09l,S4
T. H,rhwav robbers are abroad IN
some parts of Texas. Near Ferris' 10"
davs ago, pedlar was relieved Oh SS'4o
by two knights of he roau.
In the case of the State vs. j. II.
CT Rurch, charged with embezzlllng tho
q. school funds of East Baton Rouge, the
- ;nrv failed to agree, and BuIch is conse-
~ qucntly free.
"a Two convicted negro murdorers
. we're hanged at New Kent Co"r' r'ouso'
a. a. Va, last Tuesday; and on the same "s's
''e u negro who ravishcd white ch''o WAS
Ct Ivuched at Pakucal', Ky. >,
90 IAN election is to be held III 'ne
n cixtb District of Texas on the 10TH o.
Sc. ,,r;, for q member of Congress to fill the
or ,.,concv in the House resulting from ths
ne death Of Hon. Gustave Scleicher'
~ As financial operation the la'
s,' Paris Exposition was far from oe'hs
NY success. The expenses aggregated 90
'"- 600 900 francs, while the receipts were ol
El- " SC. 600 900. Philadelphia made a oe'
ter showing.
H. Not manv years ago the value
oTS t,a silk manufacture Of France was +;
had ,r ,~orsted but tho la
2n fer is now of more value than the forme
cca- ,r, .., ,,,, ,r +he worsted industI
reen :, Franco is 81 (. 900, 900, nearly half
- which is exported. .,
tate ,-..r,- fatal disease has brok
IA" ont in Scott couiitv, Mississippi, bet"e
iaFe- Eillsboro and the county line, when
noe pronounced hv the physicians as p'a
Oh measles, and by fie negroes rs the bii'
posi- nlorue. II is very fatal-nGt a sing
IA " case having recovered.
ndaE The present boundary of the nor
'''' western province of British 1hola
''e'H established twenty eight years ago.
H. inr which period there have been MI
now teen British expeditions to controll
we ncigI,boring inhabitants, requiring
!! DC emplovment az GO,0O0 men.
rs OF The nnme Lent is derived II
goose c,, ,,o,,, s;,,,ifvinr sorinr, the
. son of the year when 1t occurs
OH " lerrth OF time ofthe observance mas
6 the .;a5 s-.t having been forty hours
WIZ" then thirty-six days -Four DAYS
o:Ia'f added in the ninth century, maklnS
Ans at present forty days.
:, and Coo W Dnnre attacked II
stable Green on the street, IN New orle
anti with awa!king stick, on tho 22a
es ''to innict ing several blows before they
larity, s,r,+o,1 Mr.. Green had been an cz
ign up ~ tho MORT of the state III tie m;
nee OF ont of which grew the indictment q
r Office ,,.,
c says -~~~>>~~~----o.----~>~c' $1,000
lractcr. TT The new constitution Va