St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-10-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

hurt.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE yellow-fever patients at San
Francisco are reported recovering.
JUDGING from late reports it would
seem that the damage to the corn crop by
frost has been largely overestimated.
A FEW days since Montreal bail;f
was pitched through show window by
man-of-warsman for uttering sighting re-
marks about Prince George.
The press Ct Germany intlmates that
the insults offered King Alfonso were in
directly aimed at Germany, and are con-
sidered sign of weakness.
On the I'd panic occurred in Chris
tie Street Grammar School, New York, and
terrible catastrophe was narrowly missed.
On the I'd the validity of the S15, O00,-
600 scrip dividend issued by the Western
Union Telegraph Company in 1881 was
affirmed by the New York Court of APP
peals.
The parade of the Yelled Prophets in
st. Louis on the evening of the I'd was fav-
ored with good weather and viewed by an
enormous multitude. The ball was the
usual crush of elegant costumes.
A DELEGATION of Pittsburgh mer-
chants asks that work on the new public
building there be suspended till an add.
tional 100000 appropriation can be Sc
cured to enlarge the structure.
On the I'd delegation from the Wo-
mems Christian Temperance Union ap-
| pcared before the Senate Labor Committee
and urged the Importance Of temperance
| legislation before Congress.
| On the I'd the interstate Levee Con-
vention at Vicksburg adopted resolution
declaring it to be the duty of Congress to
provide for Improvement of the navigation
of the Mississippi and its tributaries, and
recommending permanent organization of
/! all the people of the valley to secure this
end.
On the Sd snow fell at Maniwaki,
Canada.
1 RECENT Madagascar advices indicate
that the French garrisons are bEockaded.
AN excursion party OF three hundred
| Oregon pioneers started East on the cd
over the Northern Pacific.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has
defeated another effort to frame an appor-
tionment bill.
4 AT the Mexican border in Arizona
sanitary inspection has been established to
guard against yellow fever.
On the 18th the Biennial Conference
of Church workers begins it's session in
Philadelphia.
A RULE has been made by the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad that no one shall
take into passenger car any package OF
lunch basket.
| A RESOLUTION was recently adopted
by the City Council of Stratford-on- Avon
condemning the proposition to disturb the
| remains of Shakespeare.
On the Sd a legislative committee te
investigate certain matters in connection
with the Standard Oil Company began its
sessions in Philadelphia
/ THE report that the Army of the
Cumberland had abandoned the idea o.
erecting monument to Garfield in Wash
ington was canard.
i On the evening of the Sd as Deputy
Marshall Young entered the Lee County
| jail at Fort Madison, Iowa, one of the pris
! oners knocked him senseless with stick oil
wood and all the prisoners escaped. Th'
Sheriff was absent.
, The amounts distributed in the sew
eral States by the Trustees of the Peabod,
Educational fund the past year are as fol
! lows: Alabama, s., IT'S; Arkansas, $4,050
I Florida, $2,925; Louisiana, $2,125; Missis
sippi, 81 81, 400; North Carolina, $3.50; Soutl
Carolina, s., 225; Tennessee, So, 900; Texas
+ $4,000. Total, ST., 175.
/ For the twelve months ended Angus
, 81, the value of imports of merchandise wa
S706, so4.564; for the previous twelv
, months, $742, DOS, 913; decrease this year
. ssss4, 2o4 $40 Value Of exports of merchar
disc for the twelve months ended Angus
: 81, $3.50, 71O,919; for the previous twelv
e months, $737, 1926, 75s; increase this yea
So. So, 161.
THE weavers at Ashton-under-Lyne
q Eng, renewed the strike on the 4th, an
1900 operatives went out.