St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-05-09
News Items.

for the navy.
There are 173 periodicals published
in Louisiana; daily papers 10; weekly
1873.
The arrivals of Italian immigrants at
New York during the month of March
were 5,323.
The Alliance Governor of South Caro-
lima vigorously opposes the Mucune sub
treasury scheme.
The United States is preparing
through the naval department, to man
ufacture gun cotton and smokeless
powder
| The anti-lottery postal law cases
pending before the United States Sn-
preme Court, have been continued till
next October.
A new industry just started in
Shreveport is a steam candy factory,
employing ten hands, and with capac-
ity of 5000 pounds per day.
The fastest train in Great Britain is
on the Great Northern Railway. which
makes the run from Gratham to Don
corter, 704 miles, in so minutes.
Monroe Telegraph Bulletin Jim Hill
has not yet assumed charge of the post
Office at Vicksburg and it is safe pre-
diction that he will not do SO.
St. Tammany Farmer: Something
| dropped IN New Orleans last Monday,
and it fell on the toes of the Havana
aud Mexican Lottery managers, and
their Anti allies, with heavy crash
The people of Natchitoches having
| determined that the Oilmill recently
destroyed by fire shall be replaced,
have gone actively 10 work to raise the
necessary funds.
Oklahoma is nearly as large as the
State of Ohio. 1t has 10000 inhabi-
tants, n larger number than either
| Wyoming or Nevada, and is now, says
the New York World, about ready for
statehood.
The ancestral home of the Washing
ton family is Sulgrave, an insignificant
village in Nortbamptonshire England.
The family lineage has been traced
back as far as Sir William de Hurtfern,
knight Of the twelfth century.
Ia recent issue of the Alexandria
Times is published copy of An account
sale Of five bales of cotton shipped from
that place by river to New Orleans in
1870. The list brought 23 cents per
pound, the freight and charges on which
were So 80 per bale.
Europe's population on January 1
was 3SO,2OO,OO0. The population of
each of the other continents was esti-
mated to be as follows: Asia, 850,00O,-
600; Africa, 127,O0O,0O0; Australia, a.
100000; North America, 89,250, 900;
South America. 36,420,000; polar re-
gions, 100000. The total would then be
1,7S7, 100000
The United States government has
instructed Mr.. Egan, our minister to
Chill, to offer to mediate between the
combatants in that country in the in
terest of peace and good order, and
France and Brazil and the other great
republics of the world have joined in
the proffer of their services in the in
terest of the perpetuity of republican
principles of government.
The great Russian railway from
Vladivostock on the Pacific Ocean
through Siberia to St. Petersburg has
been ordered aud operations begun.
This road will be 4,81O miles long
with spurs, more than 5000 miles in all.
The cost is estimated at one hundred
open many regions rich in minerals
and agricultural productions.
Alexandria Times: 1t appears that
there is at least one anti-lOttery paper
whose editor has confidence enough
in the strength of his cause to be will
ing to discard the weapons of the black-
guard and rely upon agument for VIC
tory. The Caucasian says" 1t we can.
not maintain our position by dignified
and forcible argument without abus.
ing any one on the other side, we shall
retire from the newspaper business"
In speaking of the decision in the lot
terry case the Baton Rouge Advocate
says" Let us have a campaign SO free
from bitterness that the two factions
of the democracy can reunite on a fra
ternal basis when the present impend-
ing struggle has been finally settled.
1t is good time to inaugurate new
programme, and the rancor of the past
should not now be revived. Ballots
and not bullets, nor threats Of violence,
should decide the controversy"
The national state department,
through q set of trained detectives, is
said to be probing into the secret facts
which brought about the murder of
Hennessey, the acquittal Of the Italian
suspects and their lynching. The pur-
pose of the investigation is to ascer-
tain precisely what obligations, if any,
rest upon the United States govern
ment. Having taught the Italian gov
ernment a sound lesson on diplomacy
and national dignity, it now becomes
our country's duty, of her own accord,
to do whatever may be right, no more,
| no less.-Ex.
Baton Rouge Advocate: The st. Mary
Banner quotes a speech made at the
laying of the corner stone of the Caffery
central sugar refinery, to show that the
| investment was "pnrely personal busi-
ness affair Of the individual John A.
Morris, no political significance what
ever attached to it, and the lottery
wasn't in it," The Banner says that
| apybody's," except for State revenues,
when it becomes at once unholy. These
nice distinctions puzzle everybody ex-
cept the high lnoralists, but they seem to
be clearly discernable to people who
strain at gnat and swallow a camel.
"Tbe fight is on, and it now rests
| with the sovereign people OF this State
| to say whether or not Louisiana will
become a pariah among her sister
States. We have confidence in the ver-
| dict of the people. Delta:
| II the Saints have had such great
confidence in the people why have they
thrown 10 the way every obstacle that
| technicalities Of law and money could
| produce to prevent the people from ex-
| pressing themselves upon the subject
Assumption Pioneer.
| Baton Rouge Advocate: A very good
| maxim for pro and anti alike in the
pending campaign is the declaration
| made by Judge Fenner in the closing
paragrap ph of bis recent opinion