Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-04-03
NEWS IEEEIS.

In Waco. Texas, on the goth, S7ooo
ire occurred.
Sixteen papers in this State are howl
ug for Hancock.
PETROLEUM oil has been discovered in
North Alabama.
Bob Ingersoll has dropped Blaine an"
is now in favor of Grant for President.
The Mormons have lately been making
aecessions from the population OF kel-
lucky.
The death rate of he city of New Or
leans for the week ending March q, as
100.
It requires 64,7G5. 900 to pay Oft the
pensio1l rolls Of 1850, in the United
States.
The river at New Orleans has risen to
within II inches of the high water mark
of 1874.
Durinc the week ending March 18th
seven deaths occurred from yellow fever,
in Havana,
A Baton Rouge man named Francis
Vincent, said ~ be 100 years old, was
recently found dead in his bed.
Strikes are on the increase in the north
crn and eastern States. At Cohocs, N. Y.
500 men are cut Of employment.
The Louisiana Legislature has passed
A law giving to physicians lien on Ia
borers wages not 40 exceed So.
The Herald relief fund had reached the
NJ. nni.icent tai of $3ll ,'47 81 on the
night of the twenty-second of March.
Two boats, the Trout and Rose City,
were lost in Red River, last week. The
first was burned ana the latter SINK.
A bill for tho relief of J. H. Gosgrovc,
Constituti0ua! printer, appropriatinG
S423s, has been passed by the legislature
from England on the 25th for pilgrim .
nue to the scene of the tragic death of
her son in Zuiuiand.
REPRESENTATIVE Acklen, it is thnnght,
will be expelled from the House Of Rep
res,n.atives when his case comes before
that body for final hearing.
His physicians have recommended
that Mr.. Gladstone take rest from his
labors fo a few days, that All over-work-
ed constitution may recuperate.
Old Dan Rice, the circus fraud aboli-
ZIONIST, black mailer, ind recently CON
verified advocate to the cause of temper
perance, held forth 10 Baton Rouge
audieuce 4 few nights since.
A citizen from Washington says that
in that city the most outrageous systenl
of black mailing is carried on by unprin-
ciDlc,l men and women to cXtorJ money
from respectful c people.
Under the rrono>ed sugar tariff bill.
the tar If on hat article will be increaS-
ed considerably over the duty OF last
wear. The rate is so per cent. ad-valo-
rem, converted into specific duties
The approaching municipal election of
Baton Rongc promise s to he quite eXcit-
ing. The Radical element are endeavor-
ing to drum up fictitious sncngih by
makiur discussions i'll the Democratic
ranks.
The Senate, on the goth confirmed the
following appointments Of members of
the Supreme Conrt: Edward Bermndrz,
Chiet just ice Associate Just ices C. f.
Fenner, Il. B. Todd. w. M. Levy and l..
+. pochc.
Tho Tammany Democrats have resolv-
ed to send q full delegation to the Gin
cinnati convention. They agree to sup
port any man noml ateA by the conven-
tion, bat will use all honorable means to
de feat Tilden.
What is known rs the Republican anti
ThI,d term committee has called n ma
tionm mass convention to meet the 9th
of May, to perfect a national organiza-
ton oDpOsing the principle OF 4 third
presidential term.
In the Senate on the eth the nomina-
tions of several Republicans for census
supervisors We're rejected, on the ground
that, under a proper construction OF the
census law, Democrats and Republicans
should be appointed imnartiaily.
Washington kilograms state on author
il, that the nomination of old MAIDS son,
s. c.. Wells, will he rejected by the Sen
ate. as soon us the case comes up. The
Kellogg case, it is also stated will be fl.
na!ly settled next week by his expulsion.
T.. G.. Palmer, some time since convict
| ed of appropriating $47 .36 OF funds
belonging to tho Louisiana Savings
Bank. has been Sentenced to three years
at hard labor in the State Penitcntiary.
a suspcnsive appeal was applied for.
Tho NEGROES Of st. John and st. James
are on the st.ikc. They band together
! and make threatening demonstIat ions.
| TO vary the monotony they occasionally
whip an outside negro for working for
the insignificant sum of scventy-tive cents
a day.
The Carroll Conservative, heretofore cd
tied and owned by d. L. Morgan. has
been purchased by b. r. Lanier, and is
now run as IL Republican, paper, under
tho title OF the North Louisiana RepMbi-
can. The paper supports Grant for Presi-
| dent.
! On the 2lth nit, while Mr.. VIM. John
ston, of East Feliciana, was handling a
loaded revolver, it was accidentally dis
charged. the shot entering his left lung.
! A few DAYS before, in the same parish, Il
| Mr.. Burns accidentally filled his arm full
| of bird shot, by carclessly handling a
towing piece