St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-03-29

Opelous as Louisiana
DR.. Talmage has an income of sou, 0OO.
The new Dallas court house will cost
$3.50. 900.
Counterfeit money is in circulation In
Dallas. Tex.
The assessment eff St. Louis is placed al
$245, OBS, 220.
Cotton will be extensively cultivated in
Oklahoma this year.
The lottery bill has been killed in the
North Dakota Legislature.
Campanini is having his throat operated
on with the promise of entire voice.
A $500, 900 fertilizing factory will be es-
tablished in Montgomery at an early date.
An English syndicate will soon establish
two extensive cotton mills at Lenover,
Penn.
An English syndicate has purchased the
Rockford (Ill.) gas company's plant tof
$500, 900.
The President has appointed John b.
Weber, of Buffalo, commissioner OF imm1-
grafton.
Marie Prescott, the actress has lost her
divorce suit against her husband, William
Persell.
Mr.. Jacob Fuller, librarian of the Wash
ington and Lee University, died last week,
aged rs years.
The peach belt in southwestern Michi-
gan was reported to have been badly dam
aged by frost.
The directors of tbs Nicaragua Canal at
New York elected Warner Miller president
Of the company.
Resolutions condemnipg imperial feder-
alton were adopted last week by the legls-
lature of Quecec.
a thick vein of bituminous coal is re-
ported to have been struck at depth OF
100 feet at Linton, Ind.
L. v. STEPHENS, of Bonneville, has been
appointed ~ succeed holland, as State
treasurer OF Missouri.
The Wes Point Terminal Company will
erect, at an early date, union depot and
Belt road ~ Atlanta.
Mrs. StSnewall Jackson has been
granted pension, as the widow OF vet
eran of the Mexican war.
The decrepit horses of England are
shipped to Belgium and Germany to be
converted into sausage meat.
Presbyterians at Madison, Ind, voted
unanimously for revision without i'm
pairing the Calvinistic system.
1t was reported in Allegan. Mich that
the peach crop in that vicinity had been
greatly damaged by cold weather.
Emile Thomas. Republican, was elected
City Marshall, of st. Louis by 1000 plural
ity over his Democratic opponent
Considerable damage is reported to
have been caused throughout the South
during the foods and heavy rains.
DR.. Henry M. Brooks, of Dixon, Ill, has
been appointed to succeed the late DR.. Kill
bourne as Superintendent OF the Eigin
Insane Asylum.
One hundred business men Of Sioux
Falls. 8. D.. decided to take steps to secure
the enforcement of the recently enacted
prohibitory law.
James Mcintosh and two daughters of
james Evans were drowned near Spirit
Lake, Iowa, by driving into an air hole in
Lake Okoboji.
1t is reported that an English syndicate
wants to buy all the manufactures In In
dianapolis, Ind, over 800, COO, 600 being
the price named.
Auditor Pavey granted permission for
the organization of the Chemical Trust and
Savings Bank of Chicago, with capital
stock Of $3.50, 600.
Damage to the amount of $4,000 was
~ = q - DrEa vtc
building at Wichita, Kan. The insurance
is estimated at $21 900.
a bill passed the Canadian Parliament
authorizing the Canadian Pacific Road
to issue $4,000, 900 additional bonds to
aid in the purchase of ocean steamships.
a heavy fall of snow in the lumber
regions Of Pennsylvania will, it is said,
result In numbering operations being
pushed night and day while the snow
lasts.
Al decision against taxing the moneys
or securities of the Presbyterian church,
or any charitable or beneficial trusts,
was rendered at Philadelphia by Judge
Thayer.
e. d. Churchill, Jr., has been appointed
receiver of the Chenoa I'LL Coal Conn
Owing to the open winter the COM
pany, it is said, was unable to pay $4,000
In debts.
Susan Kincade, who for forty years had
lived in howell at Clinton, Ill, her sole
being number of cats and
dogs. was buried there recently. Her age
was 60.
I Reports from San Carlos are to the effect
that Apache Indians are committing |
numerous depredations In that vicinity and |
10 Mexico, and that an Apache war is i'm /
minent.
a committee appointed by the Virginia
carpet manufacturers advised at Boston
that, beginning April /, the output be
reduced one-fourth for the following nine
months.
In the United States ClrcuitC Court at New
Fork recently Judge Wallace refused to
snioin the American Cotton Trust from
iissolving before the expiration Of its
,harter term.
Farmers In Bartholomew county, Indi-
ma, are reported to have decided to prose-
ute the Evansville and Richmond Rail-
Dad, declaring that no right of way has
,een secured by it.
Four of the children of the Rev. Louis
freeze, the German minister at Champaign,
H., have died Of malignant diphtheria,
nd 1t was reported that another one was
lot expected to live.
The Baltimore and Ohio road has leased
or 600 years the West Virginia and Pitts
uFr line, which as reported, gives the
saltimore and Ohio almost complete com
rol of West Virginia railways.