St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-16
General Notes.

This is a Oau year Tor aCIOndutS. DIX
have thus far been killed.
In Texas convicts are rented out to
those who want them or are worked on
State farms.
Cyrus w. Field, the protector of the
submarine cable, died in New York on
the 18th, aged 70 years.
Charlton has made its appearance in
the vicinity of POinte Tia Hachc, and
is playing havoc with cattle.
There are 25,00O,OO0 people in Russia
who owe taxes and cannot pay them,
and the government is short &G0,000,O00.
Twelve hundred barrels of cucum-
bers from the Magnolia plantation at
Buras, were shipped to New Orleans,
last week and sold at 50 barrel.
Ravachol, the anarchist murderer and
thief who for time, by his dynamite
outrages, had terrorized Paris, was gull
lotined in that city on the 18th.
The police jury of Sabine parish has
has increased the parish tax proper to
seven mills for the year 1892.
The steamer frankie Folsom was
wrecked in storm Oh Peoria lake, near
Peoria, Ills, on the night of the 18th,
and ten or fifteen persons were
drowned.
FL Paso's new S25O,OO0 government
building is now completed. 1t is built
entirely of brick, rock and iron, with
slate roof and tiled floors, and is in
every respect firc-proof
A $50 pound bale of new cotton was
received at Houston, Tex, on the 18th
and was sold for $500 to Atwood, Vio-
lett & Co., of New Orleans. 1t was
raised at San Diego, Tex.
Florence Nightingale, the heroine of
the Crlmea, is how seventy-tWO years
old, a confirmed invalid and suffering
from an attack Of grip. She is now re-
siding in London.
On the morning of the 18th a glacier
broke loose from the side OF Mont Blanc,
in France, and several scores of people
were drowned, crushed or mangled by
the death-dealing avalanche.
Troops have been sent to Homestead
Pa, near Pittsburg, the scene of the
bloody conflict OF last week between
the strikers and the Pinkerton men, and
everything is quiet there now.
Monroe Telegraph Bulletins: All of
the returning board consplators except
JnO. s. Young have been duly rewarded
for their fraud Oh the ballot. The leg
lslature could not stomach j. S. Y.
Gen. Porfrio Diaz, to whose enlight-
leo is largely indebted for her recent
progress and prosperity, has been reel
ected President, an Office which he has
held uninterruptedly since 1889.
Monroe Telegraph Bulletin: The
Fosterltes don't think there is any har-
mony" in a McEneryite getting an Of
tice now and then: 1t would have been
" lovely harmony" had the Fostelites
bagged all the circuit judgeships.
The venerable Commodore VIM. Wal
lace Hunter, who bore conspicuous
part in the naval forces of the Confed-
eracy, and of late years was harbor-
master at New Orleans, died at his home
in that city on the 4th ult., in his nine
tieth year.
The Legislature has adjourned, and
the ntl-mlscegenation bill died in COM
Senate judiciary committee
to which it was referred. 1t was killed
by the votes Of Senators Tissot, Don
Gallery. Flynn, Gauthreaux and Gull
lotte.-N. 0. Crusader.
The sugar planters of this State are to
bo congratulated because OF the passage
through the House of the legislative ap-
bill, which carries the sugar
bounty appropriation. The bill will
now go to the Senate where it is beliey-
ed to be safe.-New Iberia Enterprise.
The bill to provide for the exchange
of newly printed and engraved bonds
of the State for valid outstanding con
solidated bonds has become law. The
object of this bill is to substitute clean
bond for the worn and stamped bond of
the old issue, and it was passed simply |
10 the interest of the credit of the
State.
New Iberia Enterprise: We had a
pleasant cal last Wednesday, from MI |
J. ?. Gueydan, of Shell Beach, Vermil- |
on parish. He informs us that he has
about completed negotiations for the
sale of two sections of his domain of 3d.
100 acres, to Mr.. L. B. Thomas and 9TH
'rs OF Iowa, the price per acre being s.
cash.