St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-15
GENERAL ITEMS.

The next State fair will be held in
Shreveport on Nov. 8, 1890.
There are forty five veterans of the late
war In the Iowa Legislature.
A Chinaman is said to be the champion
massageur for ladies in st. Louis.
A Chinese miner found a $3.50 nugget
of geld at Cariboo few days ago.
Mrs. Sarah Homer of Iryington died Mon
day week, aged ninety nine years.
The Hotel Los Olives, at Los Olives,
Santa Barbara county, was burned Satur-
day.
A well sunk in search of sulphur water
at Elsinore has developed flow of natural
gas
ID. r. Davidson, architect, is reported
at Santa Barbara to have died with La
grippe.
An effort is being made to force the
Chinese gardens outside of Marysvilles
limits.
The Pueblo Indians have been quieted
and work will be resumed at once on the
Rio Grande Canal.
The damaged steel mast of the cruiser
Charleston has been taken out, and will be
replaced by new one.
The warm weather has broken the coal
ring in Chicago and the price of all sizes
has gone down dollar.
A movement has been set on foot in
Omaha for organization of corporation to
bid on the Alaska seal lease.
"This is the twelfth day of January, and
the ground has not yet been hidden with
snow" says the latest Chicago paper.
Since South Dakota became State no
less than fourteen of her citizens have Sc
cured government positions in Washing
ton.
There is talk of new company, backed
by English capital and supported by
Pennsylvania producers, to fight Standard
Oil.
The town Of Dover, N. H.. was so badly
afflicted with the grip that business was
practically at standstill and the streets
were deserted.
Diseases arising from the cold and
damp weather have effected considerable
loss to cattle in Santa Clara county, Cali
fornia.
Frank Burk, treasurer of the Atchison
road at Ell Paso, has gone to Mexico leav-
ing a shortage of several thousand dollars
in his accounts.
The San Jacinto Register claims that of
the 100000 pounds of honey produced in
San Diego county last year, 240,OOO were
from San Jacinto.
The growth of Washington is illustrated
by the fact that 2155 new dwellings were
erected last year. Many were residences
of great elegance and value.
Salinas raised a flag with forty-two
stars over the high school building last
week. Addresses were delivered and the
school children sang patriotic songs.
The Grange has found its greatest sue
cess in this country in New Hampshire,
where it has been kept out of politics and
free from every outside controversy.
Bishop Galleher, of Louisiana, lectured
to full house on ''Sidney Lanier and His
Poetry" in Alexandria, on the 4th. for the
benefit of the church Of that place.
Fifty Eve houses at Clinton. KY, were
wrecked By tornado. Five persons were
killed and fifty-three injured. Wickliffe,
KY. was also badly damaged by . storm
A bill in the Mississippi State Senate
proposes to restrict suffrage at Jackson to
those who can read and write, or to those
who own $500 worth of taxable property.
The Finance Committee Of Johnstown
have prepared bill for Congress for an
appropriation of $500, COO for the purpose
of dredging the Conemaugh and Stony
creek.
Members of the crew of the American
schooner Lackawanna, wrecked near Jere-
mine, Hayti, report that the vessel was
looted and those ON board robbed by the
natives.
The open winter has put off the solution
of the car-heater problem on the great
Eastern lines. Almost any kind of heat
er has been good enough this winter At
the East.
Arizonians are watching very closely
the selection of final location for Geron-
limo and his band by the government They
want the Indians as far. away as it is posi-
BILE to have them.
A. *. Cutting, whose arrest by Mexicans
few years ago caused international com
plications, is setting type at Walla Walla.
He says he has pleaded in vain SO far for
restitution for loss TO property.
DR.. T. E. Smith, Of Cincinnati, had his
whole right side paralyzed by . 10-grain
dose Of anti-pyTine. The dose is an ordi-
nary one. This powerful drug Is much
resorted to by grippe victims.
The Red river survey party Is about to
move down the river from Alexandra,
where their work was TO gather infofma-
ton on which to base plan for perma-
nent improvement of Red river.
The excitement in Florida over vast
phosphate discoveries in Marion and Her
nando counties, along the Withlacoochee
river and its tributary lakes, amounts to
craze, quite like the gold fever Of 40.
a wood famine is threatened at Colusa.
There is plenty of wood in the country,
but the roads leading In every direction.
are almost impossible. All stages ranning
out of Colusa have stopped except the
Marysville stage.
The Uz Isl Clerk Of court, j. B. Beattris,
is Ia Alexandria taking testimony In nine
teen timber cases now pending in the U.
s. court at Galveston. Tex The cases are
against parties living In Texas, but the
timber was cut Id this State.
Warren county, In which Vicksburg is
situated, is improving greatly. Between
10000 and $4,000 acres of swamp land,
formerly supposed TO belong to the State,
now prove to be the property of the county,
and will be turned over to it.
Laundering operations are almost ut q
standstill about the White Mountain re-
eion In New Hampshire. There is next
10 no snow In the woods. and in the val
legs and clearings the ground is entirely
bare with the exception Of patches Of ice.
An audience In an Indian village in
Michigan, becoming disguised at the tame.
ness Of theatrical performance, chased
the actors out of the theater and organ
lied q dance. The orchestra, who were
not little scared, consented, without any
coaxing. to provide the music.
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