Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-05-03
GENERAL NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

GENERAL NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
1.-The duke of Roxburghe is dead.
..--Avoy Giles Parish is to have new
Jail.
Measles prevail in the Parish Of
Pointc Coupee.
Tho U. S. Senate has removed near
ly all the old employees.
The Zulu war has cost Great Bri-
tain $43,000,00O to date.
Mo yellow fever prevails in New
Orleans as was reported
1.-The royal plate of Windsor is said
to be worth at least $6.30o,OOH.
Limited States per cent bonds are
Slid to be in demand in England.
Fruit shipped from New Orleans
by rail reaches Chicago in three days.
1.-The Office of the Pointe Coupee
Pelican has been removed to Now Road.
...-Dr. Won Stramf, first President of
the Supreme Tribunal of PrsIsia, is dead.
1.-The steamship Great Republic was
wrecked off the coast of Oregon several
days ago.
1.-THE first of April found strawber.
ries selling il Philadelphia for $3.50 per
quart.
.-..A large number of farmers in the
Parish of BielvilIe are without cotton
seed for planting purposes.
1.-The Chinese are becoming Ameri-
canized. One Of them has been arrested
in Bradford for stealing jewelry.
--..P. Lorillard won S24eO0 betting
on Parole, the American horse, in the Su'
burban Hackney races at London.
lin the olden time q ladys hair
rarely changed until she was over fifty
in these days a lady's hair will Otter
show several shades of color before she is
thirty.
--..Some hogs were missing, one Yegp
accused another, harsh words, blows ind,
a murder. All done in the Parish of Pts
Coupee.
--.- Rev. DR.. Ingraham, who died re-
Gently in Scotland at the age of 1o3, is
said to have been the Oldest minister in
the world.
IA call was issued by the Secretary
Of the Treasuary for the balance of the
loan of 1858 five per cent bonds, amount
ing to about $26O,OO0.
The United States Treasury De-
partment is inviting bids from bullion
the New Orleans mint.
---Texas cattle are on the move
northward. The yield of the south west
ern part of the State this year will, it is
estimated, 10 upward of 100000.
IA Democratic Senate has made
Bruce, Il colored Republican, Chaitrlan
of Committee. A distinction his own
party would not honor him with.
.-.. There is said to be great nneasi-
ness in Washington among the holders of
New Orleans and State bonds, for fear of
the convention repudiatiug the debt.
...About HOO Communists paraded in
Chicago Il few days since, and displayed
were armed. No disturbance occurred.
LIN the race between the City Of
Alton and the Charles Moagan, last
week, from New Orleuns to Memphis, the
Morgan won by l hour and % minutes.
--.-Generosity during life is a very
different thing from generosity in the
hour of death. Ono proceeds from genu-
inc liherality and benev olence, the other
from pride and fear.
..-.Vast beds of superior magnetic iron
ore have boon found near Shimersville,
Lehigh county, Pa, anc extend over an
area of country twenty miles in length
and FIVE III breadth.
.-.Let man pull q straw out of a
hay NOW ut Leadville, COL, to pick his
teeth and the first thing he hears is -
Say, you thief, did you know hay was
worth 5000 ton around here p
IA dispatch from Washington says:
Mr.. Ellis, of Louisiana, will otter bill
similar to that of Senator Jones, provitl-
ing for railroad communication between
the Gulf and the Pacific Railroad. 1t in
cludes all to Wheelock's road.
-.Recentiy two bombs were thrown
into the church of San Antonia, at So
vile, with the object, it is supposed, OF
panic and stealing the valna-
BILE sacramental plate belonging to the
church. Several persons were inj ured by
the explosion.
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CYAN amusing coloquy came off at
supper table on board of one CT our Mis-
sssippi steamboats, between ChicaS
exquisite, recking III oil and cologne,
who was cursing tho walters, assuming |
very consequential airs, and raw Jona- !
than seated by his side dressed in home |