The Opelousas courier., 1885-03-28

elapse before any of the Louisiana ap-
pointments are made.
The Swedish Diet has voted to adj
NIT pork, and all grain, -four aud meats
into the ports of Sweden duty free.
Charlotte Cooper, daughter of J. Fen
nimore Cooper, died at Cooperstown,
N. Y, last Sunday morning, aged s6
years.
Secretary Lamar is investigating, with
view TO the simplifcation of the bn-
siness methods in the Interior Depart
ment, and to the reduction of the cleri-
cal force.
Secretary Endicott is direct descen-
dant of the first colonial Governor of
Massachusetts,; and the Endicotts were
conspicuous hundred and fifty years
| before the Adamses we're heard OF.
A piece of newspaper folded in the
sole of the shoe, though not so elegant
or so expensive as cork OF lambskin, ,js
probably equally as good preventive
against cold feet, Try it
The President has made the following
nominations To be Enjoys Extraordi-
nary aud Ministers Plenipotentiary of
the United States Edwin j. Phelps.
Vermont, to Great Britain; Robert Me-
Lean, Maryland, to France; Geo. II.
Pendleton, Ohio, to Germany; Henry
R. jackson, Georgia, to Mexico.
Before the Inauguration, Republican
organs teemed with predictions of an
incursion of officeseekers from the South
! which would overwhelm the new ad-
ministration Now even the correspen-
dent of the Tribune is forced to confess
that stfle loudest claimants and the
most persistent applicants come from
the West and the East. brooklyn
Union, Ind. Rep.
A war between England and Russia,
on account of the Afghanistan question,
would have one favorable effect in this
country, arising out of its connection
with our breadstuff production, and the
low prices now ruling for them. Should
IA war be. the result of the present diff
culties, ii. would bring about blockade
of Russian ports, thereby cutting off
Russia's supply of wheat, while an army
in the north of India would tend to di
vert India's crop, creating need for
our surplus food at remunerative prices.
N. @. States.
A correspondent writing from Niaga-
/ ra Falls few days since says that the
ice bridge below the falls is, in some
places. over eighty feet or more in
thickness. The ice mountains are form
ed by the spray, and this season the
highest one, which is about sfn the CEN
tire of the American falls, is over $50
feet from its base to the top and is SAID
to be the highest that has formed since
the winter of 1s45. Never, says the
writer, for many years have the sur.
/ roundiDgs of the presented SO grand
4 a spectacle as now He adds: Picture
\ a forest iD which every tree is complete
" encased in ice, and You may have
some idea of the wood that Surround
the falls on the Canadian side. On a
bright day the view is one, of the most
glorious sights to be Imagined. It is like
4 crystal forest in which every color Of
4 the rainbow is TO be seen.n
The New York Sun is making amends
for it's opposition to the election of Pre-
sident Cleveland Dy SURPRISING, Ill It's
approval of his every official act, the
most enthusiastic Cleveland journals.
i Abiding to- tie recent appointments,
the Sun says: $50 far as the public
have yet been made aware every nau
ofthe seven was perfectly qualified for
the duties to which be was assigned.
But the sigaal fact about these seven
men is that every one of them is Dem
ocrai, holding The principles and cher
islling the hopes which make Democra-
CT the vital force of this Republic.
There is not single Consolidatlonist,
Federalist, or so-called Independent
Republican iii the whole Iot.. Mr.. Cle-
| 9eland and his advisers appear to have
! selected them without taking much
: counsel from the great mass of politi,
clans belonging to the respective States
but of their political soundness and or
thodoxy there is no question. We COM
mend this circumstance to the consider
alton of Democrats everywhere.n
Ladies who have long suffered from
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