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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-05
miscellaneous Items.

Lemoine & Co., tobacco warehouse
men, Louisville, KY, have failed for $780,
| 600.
The Governor of Mi sissippi has COM
muted the death sentence of John Nelson
! to imprisonment for life.
In an atfray at Greenville, Tex, re-
Gently, two men named respectively Parker
| and Baker killed each other.
There are indications of extensive
frauds in connection with the Louisville
tobacco failures.
A surplus of $4,000 from the Texas
Penitentiaries was recently handed over to
the State Treasurer.
The steamship J. C. Harris, of the
Morgan Line, run aground few days ago
| at Brazos Harbor, Tex. She had eight feet
of water in the hold and half her cargo was
damaged.
Mr.. Benjamin Gratz, aged ninety
two, the last survivor of large family
prominent in Philadelphia and brother of
Miss Rebecca Gratz, the heroine of Ivan
hoe, died in Lexington, KY, few nights
ago.
John Duffield was assaulted by thugs
in the street in Galveston, Tex, recently
and defended himself, stabbing John Kel-
Iy, one of his assailants, to death.
Atlanta's flour trade is 100000 a
year.
The presidents Of cotton factories in
the neighborhood of Augusta, Ca, invite
the cotton mill owners of the South and
West to meet in Augusta April 8 to consid.
er plan to decrease the production of cot
ton goods.
A cult 'ng scrape occurred on the
steamer Headlight near Vicksburg, Miss,
few days ago. George Martin cut Ferge
McFall in the left side and back. Both
men are negroes. McFall was cared for on
the boat and Martin was turned over to the
authorities on the arrival of the boat at
Vicksburg.
A few days ago Antonio Valdez went
to the house of Tregono Palacios at Browns
vile, Tex, and shot him through the body,
inf1icting fatal wound
George Ball, the well-knoWn Calves
ton banker who recently gave $6O,00O to
build public high school in Galveston,
died in that city a few days ago from the
effect of a paralytic stroke.
The next session of the Southern I'm
migration Association is to be held in New
Orleans.
On street corner in Nashville,
Tenn, few days ago, from a disagreement
about some business matters, William
Spence killed Edward S. Wheat with re.
volver. The victim was son-in-law of his
murderer, and succeeded him as United
States Marshal for the Middle District OF
Tennessee.
Mississippi Legislature has adjourned.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-05
Sr. LOUIS, No. March 20.

ElOOO"4H9pOVerISneQ bfeAuSFSn OA LAAEs
Ohio yalIey-The Grasshopper Train.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-. March 20.
A freight train consisting of thirty-one,
cars, heavily laden with corn, the gener-
Gus donation of Sedgewick County, Kas.y
to the Ohio flood sufferers, reached St
Louis over the Chicago & Alton Line this
afternoon, and will remain at Clark ave-
nue. and Eighteenth street until morning
In the way of contribution this is the
most novel thing seen in this country
and its progress from Wichita, Kas., has
been marked by demonstrations all along
the route, at Lawrence, Kas there being.
5000 people out to see it pass through,
while at Mexico, Mo-, it was hon
ored with torchlight reception. Each
car has an immense canvas cartoon on
each side, painted in colors, representing
grasshoppers in all sizes and manners
of performances, the most attractive
being q pair of hoppers astride a
huge ear of corn on q wagon driving four
of the insects, while in front is sign
board with the inscription, ''To the Ohio
ValIey.n It sail illustrative of the graft
tude felt by that section of Kansas for the
generosity shown by the people now suf-
fering from the foods, when Kansas
was Frustrated by the grasshopper
scourge in 1874. This plan Of recip-
rocating the kindness took form March
/, and by the 18th the entire train
had been loaded; but contributions
were so numerous that the surplus
was sold for $500, and an imperative stop
put to any further donations, as they
could not be handled. The train
has been given free transportation over
the Santa Fe, Chicago & Alton and Ohio
& Mississippi Roads, and it is expected
will reach Cincinnati Saturday night and
be delivered to the Board of Trade on
Monday. 1t is thought the sale of the
corn will realize about $4,000. Those
who are attending the train are Mayor
Griffenstein, of Wichita; w. S. White,
Beacon; Major w. T. levitt, represent
ing the farmers; Prof. Noryall, decorator
of the A., /. & S. f.; 7. j. Shelton,
Wichita Times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

On the 18th the flagship Hartford, Of
the Pacific squadron, Rear Admiral Hughes
1 commanding, arrived at San francisco
| from Honolulu.
TIE French contemplate occupying
Chinese territory to enforce the paymend
of war indemnity.
On the 18th the prosecution closed
in the Carpenter murder case at Peters
burg. I'll.
Tis declared by experts that the cat
tie disease near, Wapello, Ia, is foot rot,
and not foot and mouth disease.
| On the 18th one of a series Of grave
yard insurance prosecutions, instituted at
Fall River. Mass, resulted in conviction.
AN important clew is said to have
been discovered to the perpetrator of the
murder Of Phoebe Paullin in New Jersey
last winter.
INSTRUCTIONS have been issued to
General Millot to advance and occupy
whatever territory may be necessary to Sc
cure the French holdings in Tonquin.
The hotels at Warsaw, Russia, are
compelled to furnish the police lists of all
strangers arriving. The action is taken on
account of Nihilist plots.
PORTLAND, Ore, will secure Eastern
mails twenty-five hours earlier by the new
fast mail service than formerly.
IT is officially declared that Ireland is
free from foot and mouth disease.
On the 18th Convention of Mime
sofa farmers, with 100 delegates present,
opened at st. Paul and was addressed by
Governor Hubbard. The object of the Con-
vention was stated to be to decide upon the
best means of bringing the railroads and
millers' associations to grant relief to
farmers in the matter of grading, weights
and railroad transportation.
ON9he 10Th Newfoundland expert
enced violent earthquake shocks.
l AUSTRIAN troops have been sent to
preserve order in Titschen, Bohemia, where
great factory strike is causing serious
5ouble.
On the 10Th, at a meeting of the River
nd Harbor Committee, several Congress
IN and George L.@Waight, Secretary of
Srecent River convention, argued in fa-
r OF pcseased appropriations for the
Mississippi. .
TIE intention of England to address
America in regard t. tue making or dy-
Mantle is said to have aroused the hopes
of Russian advocates of international III
reference with the manufacture of explc-
sives.
TIE Federal Council of Switzerland
has decided to grant the extradition of an.
archists whenever asked for. Otherwis,
the anarchists would be expelled from the
country.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-05
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

FIRE destroyed the extensive ma
chine and brass works of Hoffman & Bill"
lings at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 10th.
On the 18th two prisoners escaped
from jail at Sandwich, Ont, by killing the
jailer and fatally wounding the turnkey.
In Conundrum Gulch, Colorado, five
men were killed by snow-slide few days
ago. They were: j. H. Steel, S. E. Steel,
George Lewis, J. F, Tate and Willard
THORN.
On the 18th four million feet OF lum-
Der burned at Knife Falls, MINI.
AN inmate of the Soldiers Home at
Dayton. o., named Peter Myers, was on the
18th found lying on the porch of saloon,
so brutally beaten that he died from the eff
feet of his wounds.
On the night of the 18th Boston bur-
glar tripped and dubbed policeman who
had arrested him, but was fatally shot in
the struggle.
AT Merriam and Morgan's works in
Cleveland, o., on the 10Th, an oil tank ex-
ploded and three workmen were burned to
death.
On the night of the 18th the breaking
Of levee at Roberts Island near Stock
ton, CAL, destroyed q, goo acres of wheat,
valued at 100000.
On the goth a passenger train ran in
to landslide near Salem, 0. The engi-
neer and fireman were killed and many
passengers wounded.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-05
BREAD CAST ON THE WATERS,

Returning After Many Days-GratefuE
Kansans Send of their Abundance to Their
FIood-Impoverished Bretheren of the,
Ohio YalIey-The Grasshopper Train.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-05

CHAs. lANGHEIdER, who became ia
NOUS through Dickens reference to him in
his "American Notes." died on the 10Th in
the Penitentiary at Philadelphia, and was
buried in the potter's field, his relatives re-
fusing to receive him He was seventy'six
years old, of which thirty-two had been
spent in the Penitentiary.
TIE Pope is reported to be again con-
templating leaving Rome.
The Virginia Democratic State Con-
vention will be held at Richmond, May IA.
AS soon as he can organize bis artil-
1ery Ell Mahdi will march on Berber.
The Kansas Legis ature has passed
bill to appoint State Veterinary Sur
geon.
On the goth the Rhode Island Repub-
lican State Convention renominated the
present State officers.
On the goth at Plymouth. Mass, Fl.
Z. Jackson was fined ten dollars for mutt.
lating the tomb of Daniel Webster.
CHAs. B. WRIGHT of Philadelphia,
Pa, has been elected a director OF the
Northern Pacific Railroad in place of Hen
ry Willard.
AT recent session of the Irish Land
Commission twenty five per cent. was
stricken from the rentals of the Marquis of
Lansdowne's Limerick estates.
The King of Belgium has appointed
Lieutenant Colonel +. Dewinston of the
English army Governor of the interna-
tional mission on the Congo.
Ir is reported that Osman Digna is
retiring to the interior. General Gordon
says he will be unable to defend Khartounl,
and there is talk of sending troops to his
rescue.
The Legislature of Ohio has refused
to take up the graded liquor tax bill, and
the Scott law will probably not be changed.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-05

A Reverend Drug Dispenser Endeavors to-
Increase his Worldly Wealth by Robbing
Contiding Friends-His Penchant for Quiz
nine Leads to His Detection.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-08

IN n n week at nome. S. outfit free. Paw
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jan 25lyr Portland, Maine.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-08
Lily Langtry's Family.

A bronze memorial slab in one of the
of God and the memory of six LIE Bre-
tons, who for 200 years have been the
deans of Jersey and have OBLIGATED IN the
pulpit of the church. A vacant place in
one corner of the slab has been left for
the present dean, the Very Rev. W. G.
LIE Breton. The crest of the family, a
shield sUrmounted by rose, is craven
above the names. The people of st. He
lier's say that the present one will be the
last member of the LIE Breton family to
officiate as dean of the Island and rector
of St. Helier's parish church. He is the
father of Mrs. Langtry, and like his no.
ted daughter, his name has been too freely
and lightly spoken of. For failure to an
swer satisfactorily some accusations, the
Bishop of Winchester, Of whose diocese
his deanery is part, year ago suspend
ed him from exercising his sacred func-
tons for q space of three years. He lives
in retirement now at St. Brelade's ten
miles rom st. Helier's. He is said to be
the handsomest man in Jersey, tall and
upripht in bearing with a dignifed mien
and features that closely resembles those
of the famous Lilly. He is not without
many friends in Jersey, however, who at
tribute his downfall to the extr CANT
ambition of his family. He long ago was
separated from his wife, who, 1 under
stand, is now chaperonng Mrs Langtry
in America. Mrs. LIE Breton gave big
dinners to visiting dignitaries from Eng
land and broke the Dean up financially,
and from this, say those who sympathize
with him, began his downward career.
When Mrs. Langtry came back here
from her school in Paris her beauty at
tracted much attention. AS the Deans
daughter she went into the best society
in Jersey. She began TO look down on the
simple islanders. ''She was what we call
a spoilt child" said MI Blampied, the
registry clerk of her father 3 church to me,
Then came Mr.. Langtry, a wealthy Lon
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-08
The Berlin Ghost.

A dispatch from Berlin says: "a few
nights ago the famous "Welsse Dame," or
White Lady, the spiritus famiziaris of the
Hohenzollern family, is reported to have
been seen by the sentinsls before the Alte
Schloss. The legend of this apparitlon is
we'll known. An ancestress of the Hohen-
zollerns, Countess Orlamun de, is said to
leave her grave and walk, in solemn and
measured step, the corridors of the Alte
Schloss in Berlin whenever any member
OF the royal family is about to die. N Of
wlthstanding their profound scepticism,
most Berliners, strangely enough. still be-
lieye the story of the White Lady. The
capital IS quite excited over the pretended
apparitlon. All are talking about it and
wondering what member of the dynasty IS
next destined to die.
The White Lady is ghost who has fire.
quently been seen in different castles and
palaces belonging to the royal family of
Prussia. She is supposed to forbode the
death of some of the royal family, espe-
cially one OF the children. Her last ap.
pearance was in 1879, just prior to the
death of Prince Waldemar. A soldier on
guard at the old castle was witness of the
apparition, and in his fright fled to the
guardroom, where he was at once arrested
for DESERVING his post.
Twice she has been heard to speak. In
December, 1928, she appeared in the pa
lace at Berlin and said, in Latin, 81 wait
for judgment. Again at the castle of
Neuhaus, IN Bohemia, when she said to
the Princess; in German, ut is ten
O'clock and the lady addresse died in
few weeks.
There are two white ladies in fact-one
the Countess Agnes CT Orlamunde, who
is referred to by Berlin correspondent,
and the other the Princess Bertha Won
Rosenberg, WHO lived in the fifteenth GEN.
fury. The former was buried alive in @
vault in the palace. She was the mistress
OF Margrave of Brandeburgh, by whom
she had two sons. When the Prince be-
came widower Agnes thought he would
marry her. but he made the sons an obiec-
ton, and she poisoned Thorn, for which
crime she was buried alive. Another
version is that she fell in love with the
Prince OF Parma and made away with her
two daughters. who were an obstacle to
her marriage, for which crime she was
doomed to walk the earth" as an appari-
ton.
The Princess Bertha is troubled beoaus
an annual gift which she left to the poor
has been discontinued. She appears dress
ed in white and carrying at her side
bunch of keys IN. Y. Herald.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-08
FARM AND FIRESIDB.

POUND cake made after this recent is
excellent: One pound of sugar, one of
flour, one of butter Tor if you do not wish
to have it so rich, use three. quarters of a
pound of BUTTER and ten eggs; flavor with
lemon; bake in shallow tin dripping
pan with paper on the bottom will ans
wer; put in enough dough to make the
cake when baked two inches deep, when
it is cold lift the paper from the tin, cut
the cake in pieces about three inches long
and one and half or two wide, and frost
the top and sides. These make deli cious
little cakes. You may, if you choose,
frost part of the cake with chocolate icing
and part with plain lemon favored frost
ing.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-08
ADVERTISING RATES.
doner, who anchored his yacht in the har-

doner, who anchored his yacht in the har-
Dor. He met the Beauty and married her.
The ceremony took place in the evening
in the Church of st. Saviour. The entire
population of the island turned out to
witness the wedding, and packed the space
in front of the church. The bride, with
six bridesmaids all dressed alike, walked
down the centre aisle between a double
row of sailors from the yacht, swinging
alternate red and white ships lanterns.
After the knot was tied the couple went
on board the yacht. The next morning
the vessel steamed away to London. That
was ten years ago, and since then the Lily
has only once returned to her native is
land. Three years since she spent month
at st. Brelades where she kept proudly
aloof from the island society and passed
her time in deep-sea fishing. eOf what her
career has been the people here-have only
faint idea. They know she:has be en- a
grand lady in London. and acquainted
with the Prince of Wales. "Butsdon't you
think it is shame" said Mr.. Blampied,
''for Dean s daughter to 60 on the stage?
Vain as she was, we never believed she
would do that. Cor. Ne,o York Tribune
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-08

A NEW and attractive way to make a
table spread is to have border on two
sides only, Suppose the spread to be of
crimson felt, the border should be of blocks
of plush or velvet or of velveteen or even
OF satin. Each block should have differ
ent design embroidered or painted upon
1t; the corner which has no border may
be ornamented with embroidery. The e4i-
tire spread should have large, handsome
cord or flat braid around it at the edge.
Here is afforded opportunity for the dis
play OF ingenuity. If you choose, every
other one of the blocks may be of crazy or
mosaic patchwork, and the others of plain
material.
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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-08

IF compelled to use canned fruit that is
not put up at home, seek to render it pala-
table thus: Open the can and drain off all
the liquor. Put the fruit in a proper dish.
To the liquor add sufficient sugar to make
it like syrup; let it ''come to boil" but
do not let it boil, then pour it over the
fruit.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-08

IT is said that few drops of carlo lie
acid that is. ten drops n one pint OF
water will, if poured over the earth In
flower pots, kill all living things except
the plants.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-08
poetry
First or Last I?

Sweet are the memories Of loves first kiss,
The first sweet kiss unto us given;
Sweet were the hopes like budding flowers.
Sweet were the bonds dr,t love had riven;
Sweet was the ring of wedding bells,
Sweet the sound Of vesper chimes
AS they waited along in The es ening breeze,
W 18th slyery. musical rhymes.
Bat which love is best, the new or the old7
The new one brings us sweet repose.
But the old love comes In the eyentide,
And backward with US it goes.
Rising out of the past is new born hope,
AS nesting bird from the mothers nest;
We turn to the future and dream new dreams
And our life love is surely the best.
Irene Dana.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-08

THERE are so many dishes that are iu,
proved by being cooked in sort of water.
boat, it would pay every cook to provide
herself with some such article. If made
OF tin or of iron it will last long time,
and the expense is slight compared with
the benefit arising from its use, not only
custards and cream, but beef teas, and
broth of various kinds are adyantageously
cooked in one. stFe
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-08

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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-07-12
weuE> sSysSroRs.

Some months ago correspondent in
quired in aa Eastern paper IL = woman
had ever invented anything usefal. The
records Of the Patent Ofiice for the past
few months answer this question very
satisfactorily, and from an examination
the following eases are obtsined;
Ada III. Kepley. of Efhngham, ILL.,, has
patented travellers treasure belt.
Fannie y. Saith, of Topeka. Kan, has
patented fence post.
Helen NJ. Snyder, OF Pine Bluff, Ark,
has secured patent for a lace shoe
fastener.
Marian waliock. of Cambridge City,
Ind., has taken oat patent for raii'
way frog.
Harriet 4. Baker. of Springfield
Mass, has patented scrubbing brush,
Emma Ssligman. of irvington, N. T.
has got a patent for mechanical tese'
phone.
Ellen s. Getchell, of Boston, has pa
tent for an Improved book cover.
Mary Isrtiett. of Detroit. has patent
for a clothes-iine pole.
Ahbie A. jackson, Of New York. pa
tents a game board, dice box, etc.
Elizabeth Bsteson. of Detroit, comes
10 the front with au ash sieve. aud Ma
rian W. McCann. Of Possy, lad, hNi
patented cultiyator.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-07-12
SEATTLE SATURDAY MORNING. JULY H. 1884.

feet; box drains I98 feet; cribbino. All
square yards; acres of clearing and
grabbing, s; cost uuaer contract. &l6.-
Ia ~; cost of engineering. S45S.77.
MIL street. from Elliot Bay to second:
sewers, llS feet. James street. from
Mil 30 Secsnd: sewers. 900 feet. Wash
lnRton street, from Elliott B4y to Third
sewers. o75 feet. Cost under contract
Sl0.369 81; cest of engineering. 1854 -
Totals-Graded, 35,7O7 feet: earth
work, 3A.722 cubic yards; sidewalks and
CROSSINGS, 81, ,266 feet; box drains. a33t
feet; plank road or bridges, l347 feet;
piiinQ, O679 feet; cribbine, 1881 square
yards; acres cleared and grubbed, ZsJS:
sewers. 240S feet; cost under contra 4.
Sl9s $50 IS; cost of engineering. $6752 o..
Projected Improvements are as fol-
lows:
Lake street, from Depot to Laks
Union; grade, 2736 feet: sidswalk. 5t72
feet; estimated cost, $i4 81. .O4; expeud
ed for engineering, xl4439.
Madison street, from old CITY limits
to Lake Washington; grade. s7s4 feet:
sidewalk, 67S4 feet; estimated co-t. go
262; expended for engineering. $399. 7s.
Bell street. from Front TO Fifth: grade.
~tD~f osN1 W&Ahs @S&O ASEt4 Crtituhkeu
cost, $2l25; expended for engineering.
SIP.
Mill street, froUr the alley between
Fourth and Fifth to Williamson grade.
2als feet; sidewalk, 1896 feet; estimated
cost, Sz3.0oi.S5; expended for engineer.
ing. $i3034.
Front, Kentucky, Harrison and Tenn
perance streets from Lake avenue to
Bluff; grade, 1886 feet; sidewalk. $40
feet; estimated cost, $l2.l9t.59; ex
pended for engineering. $Z3l. OF.
Howell, Tenth and Bismarck streets,
from Eighth to Mercer; grade, 44l2 feet;
Sidewalk, 1924 feet; estimated cost.
xl9,s69.f6; expended for engineering.
$32i.7l.
Fifth street, from Union 10 Vine
grade, 1926 feet; sidewalk, 1852 feet;
estimated cost, 1882; expended for
engineering, x24623.
Totals Of work progressing: grade,
q $40 feet; sidewalk. 47,2i4 feet; esti-
mated cost, $l07, 1884; expended for
engineering, xl,5S547.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-07-12

Gold, silver, aluminium and rubber
are employed by DIR. Kilbourne, 625
Front street in making artificial dem
lures. Gold for partial sets and alumni
mum for full sets prove the most salts
factory.