St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-16
ON the 9Th the straw goods trade Of

| ON tuO Otu tlS StTdW SOOuS LFaQ6 OF
New York was treated to surprise by
the announcement that the Fl. o. Barnard
Manufacturing Company, one of the larg.
est houses in the trade, had asked an ex.
tension from their creditors. Their state.
ment shows liabilities of $300,0O0, and as
sets of $685. 900.
| ON the 7th the twelfth annual COM
mencement exercises of the Princeton
| Qnd.) High School were held in Euterpe
Hall. The graduation class was COM
posed of eight pupils, six young men and
two young ladies.
| On the 7th the bond offerings aggregat-
| ed $1SS, 900, as follows: Coupons As, SIG,
900 at 1913; regular As, $685. at l2s, $50,
| 600 at 127, $1,000 at 1867; registered 4K's.
| $4,000 at 1867. The Secretary of the
Treasury accepted $4,000 registered Az
per cent. bonds at 1867 in two items of
| $4,000 and $4,000 respectively.
IT is said that the experiment of intro
ducing New England methods of fishing in
Puget Sound is proving to be eminently
successful.
AT Milwaukee, Wis, in the opening
meeting of the National Driving Club, on
the 7th, Cypress won the free -for-all trot.
On the 7th the race for the Doncaster
(England) Spring Handicap Plate, a
straight mile, resulted in dead heat be-
tween Lord Ellesmere's Felix and Lord
Alington's King Fisher. The stakes were
divided.
The accounts of Colonel W Fl. Webster,
late treasurer of Merrick County, Neb.,
have been found $34, 600 short. Webster
offers to turn over all his property,
amounting to $4,000
In London the recent meetings of tenn
perance people to protest against the
compensation portion of the government
county programme have opened the
eyes of those who have sneered at the
coldwater fraternity to the fact that they
are not mere handful of fanatics, but a
numerous, respectable factor in the make
up OF the great city's population.
A MOTION was passed by the Italian
Chamber of Deputies, on the sth, abolish
ing capital punishment.
DURING the seven days ending the Sth
business failures aggregated: For the
United States, 207, and for Canada, 2s;
or total Of 235, as compared with total
of 2o5 for the previous seven days.
IT was expected that the whole line of
the Nicaragua canal would be located by
the 10th, including the complete through
surveys Of the two possible locations on
the east end, known as the slower route"
surveyed by Commander Lull in 1928,
and the upper route" surveyed by Mr..
Monveal in 1885.
On the sth bond offerings were: $137, 900
registered As, at 127 and 127X; $249, 500 regis
tered ANS, at 127 and 1271. Total offerings,
$685. 500, of which the Government ac-
cepted $4,000 registered As, at 1877; SAC, 900
registered AIS, at 107. Total, 200.
IT is said that the Austrian budget,
soon to be submitted, will show an in
creased expenditure of 5000, 900 forms.
THE petition Of the Italian Bishops,
asking that the article in the Penal Code
bill imposing penalties on the clergy for
abuses committed in the exercise of their
functions, be eliminated, was rejected by
the Italian Chamber OF Deputies, on the
8th..
On the Sth the New York State Senate
committee chosen to investigate the meth
DDS of the aqueduct commissioner, re.
sumed their work left off on April %.