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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10

I
cided the act establishing colored uni
ground that the money appropriated wa!
part of fund which had been declared By
| the Constitution to be for common schools
and which could not be used for univer
sity.
The reduction in the public debt during
February amounted to 1865, 1856 and since
June 80, or the first seven m onths of the
current year, aggregates SIC, ,974,622.
SEcKENDoRF, MEvINo & Co., hop mer.
chants, of Nuremberg, Bavaria, Sases, Bo-
hemia and London, who have suspended,
had an office In New York. The liabili-
ties of the Nuremberg house are reported
to be about 6, 6,O0O, 900 marks.
ARTICLES of incorporation of the White
and Black River Valley Railroad Company
have been filed with the Arkansas Secre.
tary of State. 1t is to run from Jackson
port to the Missouri State line.
MRS. HEAToN NANCE shot herself
through the heart the other day at the
Leland Hotel, Chicago. She was formerly
an actress known as May Carroll, and was
lady of culture and refinement belonging
to New York family highly connected in
the East and Europe. 1T appears that she
married Heaton Manice, a wealthy New
Yorker in Europe about year ago. Re-
Gently her husband took steps to procure q
divorce.
THE British steamer Excellent, Captain
Taylor, from Messina for Philadelphia was
sunk at Gibraltar recently by collision
with the British steamer Memling The
crew were saved. The Memling was badly
damaged and was beached to prevent sink
ing. The Excellent had previously been In
collision with and stove the bows Of the
British steamer st. Asaph.
AN avalanche in the valley of Morotobid-
da, Switzerland, has killed ten persons and
many head of cattle, and destroyed large
number of houses.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended March numbered for
the United States, 202; Canada, AZ; total,
"a, compared with go the previous week
and 273 the corresponding week last year.
A TORNADO or severe storm blew down
several houses and killed one man at New.
ton, Kan, on the evening of the 1st. Storms
were also reported at Raymore, Mo-, and
other places.
Two men were fatally and two others Sc
riously injured in mine near Hancock,
Mich, recently by a fall Of rock.
THE Supreme Court of California has re-
fused a rehearing of the decision of the
Circuit Court that Sarah Althea Hill was
legally married to the late Senator Sharon.
THE final transaction in the deal for the
removal of Libby prison from Richmond,
Va, to Chicago has been completed and
the famous bhildlng will be removed at
once.
CANADIAN lumbermen are especially
pleased with the provision of the new
Tariff bill placing lumber on the free list.
FIRE in Winnsborough, s. c., the other
day destroyed the Episcopal Church,
livery stable, two stores and several smaller
buildings.
Two small children of Thomas Jones, COL
ored, Of Hampton, Va, were burned to
death recently.
The Secretary of the Treasury has been
advised of an organized movement for the
emigration of German conyicts to this
country and has taken steps to guard
against such.
SEVERAL barges and canal boats in Brook
lyn, N. Y, were destroyed by fire recently
with their contents. Loss, $4,000.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10

SENATOR HoAR, of Massachusetts, is
decorated with more college titles than
any other member of either house of
Congress. The degree of IL. D. has
been conferred on him by five different
colleges-namely, William and Mary,
Harvard, Amherst, Williams and Yale.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10
A STATEMENT prepared at the Traa

A STATEMENT prepared at the Treas
ury Department shows that during
February there was net decrease o1
81, ,043;7S3 in the circulation, and q
net increase of SO, O33. .743 in the money
and bullion in the treasury. The de-
crease ip the circulation was princi-
pally in gold certificates and United
States notes. The increase in the
treasury cash was principally in stand
ard silver dollars and United States
notes.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10

The Enterprise, Of Palestine, H.,
says that William Corbin picked up in
the street in that place relic of the
Mount Vernon cyclone in the shape of
an excuse blank used in the Mount
Vernon public schools. Palestine is
nearly one hundred miles northeast
from Mount Vernon and in the path in
which the cyclone travelled.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10
NEGOTIATIONS hetween tha vatiea

NEGOTIATIONS between the Vatican
and Russia have proven fruitless. Rus
sia demanded concessions, stipulatine
that Catholic Bishops throughout Rus
sia should be appointed by the Czar;
that the Russian language should be
exclusively used in Catholic churches
in Russia, and that the offspring Of
mixed marriages should be educated
In the Orthodox Russian Church.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10

BIDS have been opened at the Navy
Department for furnishing sixteeninch
gun lathes for the Washington navy
yard. The following are the lowest
bids: For six lathes, the Niles Tool
works, Hamilton, o., $4oo, 500; for
three. lathes, Bement mills, Philadel-
phia, $4,000; for seven 1athes,
Bennsche & Hanscheldt, Harrison, N.
j., 100000.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10
MTsCET,LANEOUs.

A SERIOUS fire took place In New York on
the 1st, destroying the furniture factory Of
POTTER q Etimus, Forty-second street and
Lexington avenue. The loss was esti-
mated at 81, ,OOo, 600. A portion OF the ele-
waited railroad was destroyed during the
progress of the fire.
ALoNzo DIMMICK, the noted insurance
agent defaulter Of Buffalo, who fed to Cam
ada to avoid five years term in prison,
died recently in st. GATHERINGS, Ont.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10

The committee having IN charge the
Investigation of the Reading road
troubles recently considered a propo-
sition to call before the committee
Charles A. Dana, of the New York
San, for his abuse of the committee
and his charge that the committee was
speculating in Reading stock. The
committee decided to ignore the mat
afa,,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10

The Post-ofice Department has be-
gun payment to postmasters who ars
entitled to additional compensation
under what is known as the Spaulding
act of March 8, 1883. The entire
amount is $4,000.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10

JUDGE PATTERSON, of New York, has
granted Rev. DR.. McGlynn perma-
nent injunction restraining Henry
George and his followers from incor-
porating the Anti-Poverty Society.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10

IT has been ascertained through re-
ports from the various county superin-
tendents that the number of persons
frozen to death in Dakota in the Janu-
ary blizzard was one hundred and nine.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10

ADvIcEs from Massowah say that
Chief Debeb and his followers, who
hitherto were powerful allies of the
italian forces, had deserted to the
enemy, taking with them the arms and
equipments with which the Italians had
supplied them.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10
BARON MARoCHETTI, the new ltal-
len Ambassador to Russia, is o son OF
the famous sculptor of that name.

Two officers have been arrested in
Bulgaria for high treason. 1t was be-
.ieyed that Prince Ferdinand would be
compelled to sanction their execution.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10

WILLIAM HASKELL, JR., one of the
news editors of the Boston Herald. died
recently after long illness from
consumption. He was forty-four years
old,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10
CURRENT COMMENT.

GENERAL T. E. SPINNER says he is
well, happy and contented at his home
on the Florida beach.
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were on the verge Of going TO the third
party, but with every possible effort to stem
the tide four years ago, the detection was so
great that New York's vote was given to
Cleveland, ard the republicans lost the
presidency. Since that time the third party
has carried its banners into the republican
ranks and now openly proposes to be the
Moses to lead from political bondage all
those who are ready to rally to its standard,
and forsake their republican allegiance.
General Fisk, of New Jersey, who, not long
ago, was prominent republican leader, is
at their head, and being an aggressive cam
paigner, and an ex-republican Of large per-
sonal following, particularly in his own
state, he has upset whatever prospects the
republicans might otherwise have had, of
carrying that state, as we'll as insured heavy
losses to them in other doubtful states.
The prohibition vote in New York in 1881
was but 4, AS; in 1887 it was Il $50. In
New Jersey it was only 6, 1874 in 1884; two
years later, with Fisk Tor governor, it was
19,S09. A continued increase of this sort
would soon leave the g, o. P. on dry ground,
and this is just about where it will find itself
after the November election. General Fisk
does not of course stand even chance Of
carrying New Jersey, but his candidacy
takes the only sweet morsel of hope
from the watering mouths of those who
thought they saw their opportunity of turn
ing New Jersey into the republican column.
The old war party must go, and things
look as if it will take its final departure in
the course of the next few months. 1t re-
mains thoroughly helpless as it sees its foun-
dation being knocked to pieces, and the de-
claration of the revolt of its prohibition con-
tingent is certain forerunner of the final
crash.
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A Monument to Adam.

General Spinola's bill, providing for the
erection of monument in Brooklyn to per-
petuate the memory of certain revolutionary
soldiers, has excited the violent opposition
of Congressman Kilgore, of Texas. Mr.. Kill
gore even goes so far as to threaten the in
PRODUCTION of bill to erect monument to
Adam in his Texas district.
Congressman Kilgore is not so far wrong,
after all. The truth is, Adam has been
shamefully neglected. We have raised mon
uments in honor of host of smaller men,
but the father Of the human race has been
ignored. Yet, in his day, Adam was big
man. He was an original man, especially
in his ideas about clothes and such matters
He was the monarch Of all he surveyed, al
though his surveying was conducted in a
very primitive fashion, because the state of
his finances made it impossible for him to
supply himself with the proper instruments
for the business. Still, it should be recol-
lected that Adam was one of the old pio-
neers. Whenever he saw anything that he
wanted, he simply reached out and helped
himself to it, method of business which
has been utilized by many of our most sue
! CGSSAtll IuClA QON IL W tllC JlGSC4Ab lllilt.
But is unnecessary to pursue the subject.
The revolutionary soldiers can wait for their
monument. They had to wait for their pay,
and that was Of far more importance to them
than pile of rocks can possibly be at this
late day. Adam should have precedence in
this matter But fer him there would have
been no revolutionary soldiers, no revolu-
ton, no continental currency, no war debt
i'm fact there would have been n3thing
worth talking about.
And Texas is the place for the monument.
! With the Mills bill on one edge Of the state,
and the monument on the opposite side, the
/ lone star commonwealth viii be held in its
proper place on the map. Texas is the only
state in the union big enough to support
| two such dead weights.
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man TO commit murder Saturday and be
put upon his trial in the superior court the
following Monday, and exhaust his oppor-
tunities for delay in the course OF a very
few weeks. 1t all depends upon the con-
tinuances and the amount of business in the
courts.
Any very radical changes in our criminal
law, so far as trials are concerned, would
make it necessary to amend the CONSTITUTE
ton, and grave doubts exist as to whether
such changes would secure defendants their
full rights under our theory of fair and i'm
partial trial.
One thing, however, could be done. Our
Judges could, if they felt so inclined, beyery
rigid in the matter of granting continuances
that is, they have in their power to stick
more closely to the strict letter of the law
than some of them have been in the habit
of doing. This would sometimes greatly
expedite a case, but it must be admitted that
this way of rushing trial would in some
instances rendera criminal less able to make
good defense.
Our best policy is to stand by our present
system until we are certain that we have
better one to substitute for it. When
murderer spends year or two in Jail before
he goes to the gallows he has no easy time;
he is looking forward to his punishment,
and he suffers the pangs of remorse. If he
is innocent he knows that the delay pre-
pares the public mind for his acquittal, and
makes it easier for him to obtain a fair trial
by a jury of unprejudiced men. 1t also en-
ables him to collect evidence and bring out
the strong points of his case.
Viewed from every standpoint, it will be
seen that good deal can be said in favor of
the laws delay in criminal cases. Some
times it may be provoking when people are
in an indignant mood, but we ought not to
try and punish our criminals when we are in
such frame of mind Such business is
best attended to when we are ready to hear
both sides and give the evidence for and
against the prisoner calm and critical con-
sideration.
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How the NEGROES We're Bought.

1t turns out that Editor Murat IIalstead,
Of Cincinnati, was eminently right when
he somewhat sarcastically remarked in his
paper that the buying of the negro dele
gates from the south was mere matter Of
distributing admission tickets to the Chicago
convention. The cynical old editor is not
afraid to tell the truth when the pinch
comes, as come it does occasionally.
In regard to these tickets of admission,
the plan on the part of Sherman and Alger
was to offer so much apiece for each. Each
delegate had four, and although the outside
price was low, the Sherman and Alger
bunco steerers offered q good round sum,
bidding against each other in very lively
manner.
The understanding was that when ticket
Of admission was bought at good price
the vote of the negro delegate who held it
was to 60 with 1t. The Sherman manage
ment opened the deal by offering to pay the
Alabama negro delegates fifty dollars apiece
for their tlclets--part cash and the balance
when the convention adjourned-a their
hotel expenses.
Ayers managers offered the Alabama
negro delegates seventy-iive dollars for their
tickets, AID the negro delegates, with
marked shrewdness, accepted both PROPOSE
tions. They collected the money from both
sides and returned home happy. Ben De
Lemos, of Montgomery, who appears to
have engineered the whole thing, is of the
opinion that no negro delegate received
more than four hundred dollars for his va
rious votes, although there was something
due them when the convention adjourned.
This brings Us face to face with Editor
Murat Halstead's original proposition,
namely: That the buying of negro dele
gates was mere matter of purchasing a
few admission tickets We shall rarely see
such refreshing franlSness rs this in polit-
ical campaign.
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The Hysterians in Trouble.

Editor Richardson, of the Macon Tele-
graph, whose interest in THE CoNsrITU-
TON is a substantial tribute, thinks it is
very funny because the report that the
ChautauQua directors had invited Mr..
Blaine to deliver an address is denied. 1t
gathers from this that 'the Chautauqua
people grow squeamish when the idea of in
yiting Blaine is suggested"
Let rs hope that Editor Richardson has
no idea of becoming an honorary member
of the society Of hysterians in regard to this
matter of inviting people to speak at the
Chautauqua. The hysterians went into con-
vulsions when il was proposed TO invite
Major Mckinley 10 the Chautauqua, and by
the time they had begun TO arrange their
disordered garments and stralghten out
their disheveled bangs they heard a rumor
to the effect that Brother Blaine had been
invited. AT this the hysterians, who have
taken up the absurd idea that they consti-
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ATLANTA, GA, AUGUST :, 1855.
rrnnee and lhe confelcrner.


The young southerncrs who are now
taking the places of their fathers on the
stage Of active life are only too ready to de-
nounce secession as an act Of folly. In the
light Of history the effort made by tho south
TO establish an independent government APP
pears to have been unwise and rash in the
extreme but the leaders of the movement
had good reason TO believe that they would
be strongly backed by more than one Eu-
ropean power
II II had not been for the strong abolition
sentiment in England, it is probable that
the government Of that country would have
recognized the confederacy. France, too,
was anxious 20 extend active aid to the
young nation. A recent work by Mr.. John
Bigelow, the American consul general in
France during the war; gives an interesting
chapter Of heretofore unpublished history.
According 70 Mr. Blgolow, MIR. Sliden
made avery favorable impression upon Louis
Napoleon. lie was so successful ia his
diplomacy that the emperor privately ad-
mitied that he sympathizol with the con-
fedoracy, and that De WAS willing TO have
NJ Shleil and his government profit by
The TACT SO long as il could be kept secret.
30 loans were negotiated in Paris, and sew
eral war vessels we've built in French ports
for the coaiedera,es. II the southern
Armies after 1868 lad continued to succeed
IN the held France would in all probability
have recognized the confeloracy. Bat the
onward march Of the union troops changed
the Whole course Of events. Then ,bere
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was another unfortunate obstacle. The
federal representatives in France managed
to prevent the sailing Of the confederate
vessels until it was too late for them to be
Of much use. Mr.. Slidell was so indscreet
as TO write a letter in which he spoke too
freely Of the enperor's confederate sympa-
thies. After that Loais Napoleon turned
the cold shoulder to lis confederate friends.
lie was willing that some things should be
done in the dark, but he was not willing to
bear the responsibility for them in the light
Of day.
Suppose, however, that everything had
moved along smoothly, and that the French
had succeeded in firmly establishing Maxi
milan in Mexico. In that event it can
hardly be doubted that Marshal Bazaine
would have marched large army to the re-
lief of the confederates, and the French
navy would have raised the blockade Of orr
ports. In return for this friendly aid the
confedracy would have been expected to
stand by the new Mexican empire, and the
Monroe doctrine would have been a thing
of the past.
These schemes have n magnificent look
Oh paper, ~ ~ no N1iltltt li4dL ti4Ng
pressed our confederate statesmen. But
the outlook in 1865 was very different the
following year. The fortunes of war
changed the complexion Of affairs at home,
and the activity of the federal ministers
and agents reyolutionized public opinion
abroad. The confcderacy and MaXimilian's
empire went down with a crash, and few
years later Louis Napoleon was crownless,
broken-healted exile.
To the young men who are now growing
up and have learned the story OF the con-
federacy from northern histories, this frag-
mentary chapter cannot fail to prove inter
esting If it leads them to pursue their
studies in this direction they may come to
the conclusion that their fathers who wore
the gray did not enter upon an altogether
hopeless and foolish struggle And they
may come to this conclusion without any
sacrifice of loyalty to the union and the old
flag.
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The Laws Delay.

A correspondent objects to the delay in
the Voolfolk case, and asks if there is no
way of expediting criminal trials. He says
that if man is guilty he ought to be dis
posed of before his crime is forgotten by the
public, while, on the other hand, if he is
innocent it is unjust to keep him in Jail a
couple OF years or so.
Under our present constitution and laws It
would be almost impossible to run our crilui-
nails through on rapid schedule. Our rule
regarding continuances is very liberal, and
considerable delay is sometimes caused in
this way. Then, when the defendant is
convicted, his motion for a new trial may
come Just as the term Of court is drawing to
q close, and the result is that the judge sets
4 day for hearing it during his vacation.
The motion may be oyerrulcd, and in that
event the writ Of error may not be reached
in due course in the supreme court for
several months. and no matter what its fate
may be, there is necessarily further delay
when the case gets back to the lower court.
And yet under our present laws 1t is posi-
bic, when there is nothing in the way, for a
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Some of the organs say that Mr.. Cleve-
land is an accident, and they ring the
changes on this in order to show, we sup
pose, that accidents ought not to be toler-
ated. The truth is, if he was an accident
in 1884, he was a very fortunate one. He
brought the corrupt republican party up
with round turn, and for three years has
given the country long-deferred taste of
honest government.
But, whatever Mr.. Cleveland was in
1884, he is not an accident. There is not
an intelligent voter in the country but is ac-
quainted with his record and with his
purposes. 1t is well known that he de-
spises shams of every kind and degree, and
that he has the courage Of his convictions.
He has administered the affairs of the gov
eminent with the promptness and simplici-
ty of business man, and given satisfac-
ton to all interests except those represented
by the professional office-seekers.
The real accident seems to be Candidate
Harrison, who was nominated by the Blaine
men in order to defeat Sherman, and the
fact that he was an accident has made it
self apparent in the character of the
speeches he has made since his nomination.
These speeches, so far as they have been
reported by his admirers, are dull and plati-
tudinous. They are characterized by nei-
ther thought nor eloquence.
Let us put the accident where it belongs.
CANDIDATE HARRISON has made great
many speeches since the campaign opened,
but has not uttered a word that anybody
can remember.
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now England Protects Her citizens

The action of the British government in
requesting the governor of Missouri 10 give
Brooks, alias Maxwell, the alleged trunk
murderer, further respite is just what
might have been expected.
Brooks is poor man, with no friends in
this country, and with no influence in his
own, but be is an Englishman in trouble in
a strange land. The knowledge Of these
facts is sufficient to cause the British gov
eminent to interfere, and ask time for q
thorough investigation of the case.
The course of our government under
such circumstances is very different. Our
citizens get into Mexican and Cuban dun
geons, and we let them get out or die with
out saying word. In more than one such
instance British war vessels have trained
their big guns against a sea-board city, and
secured the release of ulijustly imprisoned
Euglishmen by force.
There are Macy Objectionable points in
the makeup Of the British government, but
it will protect its humblest citizen wherever
he may be. In this respect it is impeasur~
ably superior to our government, and We
could not do a better thing than to follow
its example,