St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-07-07

| FORTY three, occurred at New Orleans a few
days ago. He was Attorney-Ge under
| the Nichols administration, and figured
prominently in the politics of Louisiana
in 1874 and 1873.
Emma Key, eldest daughter OF ex-
Postmaster General Key, was married the
other night at her fathers home in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, to NJ. B. Thompson, Superin-
tendent of the Mail Service of the United
States.
Rev. J. G.. Hartshorn, of Providence,
| r. T., has offered to erect building to cost
1000 at Richmond, Va, to be given the
Baptists for school for the education OF
colored girls.
E. V. Logan, Of Mitchellsburg, Ky,
| fell off train near Lebanon while drunk
the other morning, and was frightfully
mangled.
At the meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the Sanitary Council of the Mis-
sissippi Valley, at Memphis, Tenn, the
other night, it was decided that when the
| National Board of Health closed on the Goth
of June, to maintain the inspection service
by river and rail as now enforced. Its
rules for that service would be adopted
and maintained intact by the Sanitary
/ Council of the Mississippi Valley. 1t en-
braces inspections at Memphis, and also
| on the river between Vicksburg and the
Louisiana State line and at New Orleans
The President has recognized James
Hunter as Vice Consul of Portugal at Mo-
| bile, Ala.
| The fifty members of the Texas Legis-
lature indicted some time ago for poker
| playing have about all settled their cases
without trial by payment of fines and
! costs.
Miss Colista Hopewood, the sixteen
| year-old daughter Of prominent Balti-
MORGAN, has married William Obendorfer,
a wealthy young Hebrew of Norfolk, Va,
| against the consent of her family.
Another natural gas well has been
struck at Wheeling, w. Va.
The Kentucky Central road has COM
| pleted its Richmond extension, the last
| spike having been driven at Paris a few
days ago.
An experiment has been recently
made in securing wool at Fort Worth,
| Tex, and the clean product forwarded to
| Boston for inspection. Thirty or forty
million pounds will be exported from Tex
| as this year in an unsecured condition. An
| allowance of fifty per cent. for dirt and
grease is said to be obtained.
A genuine tiger was slain in st.
| Landry Parish, La, lately which meas
| ured nine feet from tip to tip.
The .'peen-to,' or flat peach OF Chi
| ma, is revolutionizing peach culture in
| Florida. 1t is fiat like a biscuit.
Recent information from Dallas states
| that within the past few days northern
| capitalists have been looking over Texas in
! quiet way, and have been reported from
different points prospecting for locations
for themselves and those they represent
| Northern railroads are organizing plans
for sending large parties on such tours into
the State to investigate the country as in
| diligently as possible.
A few days ago there was sold on
the trash wharf at Key West, Fla, 3d.
| $3.50 worth of sponges.
A reeler of silk in New Orleans, who
has hitherto employed some nineteen hands,
| proposes to go into the manufacture of silk
| fabrics, and to organi re joint stock com
| pany for that purpose. He has already
reeled 1900 pounds of silk and has an inn
portation of cocoons on the way from
| France of 1900 pounds.
A sixteen foot shark. of the hammer
| head variety, has been recently killed at
| Fernandina, Fla.
Of the 800 Episcopalians in Ken
| lucky, it is said 1900 are in Louisville.
Minnie Mitchell committed suicide
| at Shreveport, La, recently. A local paper
| relates that her death in Shreveport, and
the killing by railroad accident of the
man who brought her to that city, on the
| same day, was singular coincidence, par
| ticularIy as it was thought her suicide was
| caused by him.
Twenty thousand pounds of zinc
were shipped one day last week from
| Knoxville, Tenn, to Connecticut.
| Moses Stuart, while fishing near Rod
| dy, KY, a few days ago with dynamite,
| was injured by the explosion, fell into the
water and was drowned.
At the National Cemetery near Mem
! phis, Tenn, the other morning George
| Fletcher, section boss of the Louisville e.
| Nashville Railroad, was shot and killed by
! William Kennedy, negro. Fletcher's
little boy was roughly handled by Kenne-
| dy, and when Fletcher expostulated Ken
nedy, without warning, drew pistol and
| fred, the ball striking Fletcher in the side,
from the effect of which he died soon af-
terward. Kennedy made his escape.
Judge Pardee, of the United States
Circuit Court, at New Orleans, the other
day rendered decree in the case of New
| Orleans VS.. John A. Morris ct al, by which
the city RECEIVERS 1914 shares of stock OF
] the w ateruarks CnmnanY which had been