St. Landry democrat., 1892-12-24
O General Notes. Q


| tines Day and NHTli Gras.
The international Monetary CODfere
cnce has adjourned to meet next spring.
| \ toy with which the great Napoleon
| played when he was child was recently
sold for 5000.
1t is not likely that silver coinage will
! be actively discussed again IN the Fifty
! second Congress.
| 1t is believed that the United States
! soldiers are closely pressing the MeAl-
can Ieyolutlonists.
Justice Lamar is i'll. His retirement
! from active service on the Supreme
! bench may occur very soon.
During the week ending Dec. 10 there
were twenty-five cases Of cholera and
two deaths in Hamburg.
One Republican elector is chosen in
California. Let him and the solitary
Democrat in Ohio pair-St. Louis Re-
| public.
Dir. kohn, the new prince archbishop
| of OlmuetZ, Austria, is the first Hebrew
| to attain so high a rank III the Catholic
| church.
Last Monday the Supreme Court of
| Louisiana rendered a decision i'll favor
| y
car act of 1890.
A strong effort is being made in New
! York to have the Legislature abolish
capital punishment and substitute life
| imprisonment.
A destructive cyclone visited Sum
NIT, Miss, and Clinton, La, last week
| Several lives were lost and much valu-
| able property destroyed.
1t is probable that Congress will in
crease the revenue tax on distilled spir-
its from the present rate of 80 cents a
gallon to 125 cents gallon.
Big men are implicated in the Pana-
ma scandal, among them three Senators
and three Deputies. Bail has has been
refused the three directors HOW in
prison.
Detective Q. c. Somlners, who figur
ed in the Bunch killing, is in jail at
Meridian, Miss, charged with robbne
the Southern Express company OF
5000.
Besides the $4,000 stolen in two pack
ages from Wells, Fargo & Co., in tran
sit from New York to Texas, other
amounts Were-also stolen, making an
aggregate Of Sl35,000 There is yet nc
ciCW.
Paris IS showing itself capable Of be-
| ing Just to its Panama Canal "booders.7
1t proposes to punish as felony what, i'll
! this country, WGetrcat as one OF the priv
! lltgcs OF professional Statcsulanshlp.
st. Louis Republic.
! The government needs more revenue
and it is therefore likely that the sugar
! bounty, which costs about s>9,O0O,uU0
! will be repealed, and a tariff on sugar
which will yield about %G0,0O0,0O0, will
! bt imposed.
Pension certificates arc still being is
| SuGu at the rate OF 5000 week. That
makes over 100000 a year. There will
certainly be over million pensioners
| on the rolls before Cleveland is inaugu-
I Ialcd.-St. Louis Republic,
! 1t is stated in Paris that NJ. dc Les
/ 5eps Knows nothing whatever about the
| Panama trial and the sensational cir
! cunStancGS attending the present i'll
| vestigntluu. Ills mind, the report SAYS,
is So impaired 10y age that lie Is totally
, lnCapabiG or consecutive thought, and
he newer even asks for il newspaper.
GnlZa is Il small null personally, but
he Is il IcVUlutlOnlst with large X. lie
I has cost the United States government
over 100000 in military and judicial
operations, has killed any number of
Mexican soldiers, and is still doing bust
ness at the old stand despite the regular
troops on either side OF the Rio Grande.
1t is said by those who are in posi-
ton to know, that fully 500 negroes have
ielt the parish OF Avoyeilts on account
OI the deeds oT the White Caps, and
hundreds more would have left the mar
ish Immediately had the White Caps
been TUNED loose. They will be tried
at Alexandria Oh Jan. 10.
Natchtoches Democratic Review :;
The tTack-laylDg on the railroad has
reached Grand ECoIe, and the contract
oIs are at work On the Y. Which re-
minds us that Grand Ecore is manifest
ing IL spirit Of enterprise. Houses and
stores are being repaired and rebuilt,
and every thing out thele seems to be-
token that the ancient little place will
regain some OF its lost glory.
Senator Gibson died at Hot Springs.
Ark, on the 10th, aged 60 years, and
was buried at Lexington, Ky, beside
his wife, last Monday. He was all able
lawyer, Il gallant soldier, man of eX-
traOldlnary culture and refinement and
Il faithful and highly efficient public
servant. Distinguished honors were
paid TO his memory this week in the L.
5. Circuit Court at New Orleans and in
both houses OF Congress at Washington.
The countless thousands who have
wept over the pages of Mrs. Harriet
BetcEIer Stoves realistic recital of I'm
Gle Toms" th1aldOm will certainly en-
brace the opportunity to visit the cabin
in which Uncle Tom y lived and died.
That opportunity will be given to all,
tor the cabin Will be exhibited at the
Worid's Columbian Exposition. The
plantation Oh which it stands is on the
eAas and Pacific railroad, on Cane
liver, u miles below Natchitoches.
The most recent election figures Judi
cate that Cleveland will have 21j votes
III the electoral college, Harrison l15,
and Weaver Is, The popular vote is
figured out at II, 107,3jS, distributed as
follows: Cleveland, j,G07,S43 Harrison,
o,l7o,9j4 Weaver, 1,O39,S1l; Bidwell, |
3l0,1ol. Cltveland's plurality, 43l,99S |
la 1883 his plurality was 9S,ji4; in 1884 |
it was 2G5S4. Tilden had 250,y1S pIu-
Tallty III 1876. CleVeland's plurality is |
greater than that of any Democratic |
president and larger than that of any |
president, except Grant.
Representative Beltzhooyer, of Penn
3ylyanla, has introduced a resolution in |
sne House, which has for its object, the
election Of President and Vice Presi-
lent by Il direct vote of the people, in
stead OF by the cumbersome method
low i'll vogue. An effort will also be
made at tue present session to have the
presidential term increased to six years,
put with a proviso of absolute ineligi-
'lllty to reelection for the present or
outgoing incumbent. 1t is understood