St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-10-29
General Notes,

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German carp.
| In 1916 there were only $50 English
people in all North America.
Lafourche rice planters are strongly
opposed to the rice t1ume law.
| Henry George, the single tax apostle,
has declared his intention to support
| Cleveland.
The $4,000 residence Of Dr. J. P.
FranceZ, at Carencro, was destroyed by
| fire last week.
In national political circles Cleveland
stock is steady and firm, with gradual
upward tendency.
| Through pneumatic tube 700 miles
in length letters arc whirled between
Paris and Berlin at the speed Of twenty
| miles minute.
| The Democratic factions of Lafourche
have united, and large ratification
meeting was held at the court house in
ThibodauX last Saturday.
| Capt. j. N. Pharr, chairman of the
Prohibition state committee, visited
| New Orleans last week and arranged
for putting full electoral ticket in the
| field.
Walter Suthon, of Franklin, who
struck the lottery for $4,000 some time
ago, has moved to New Orleans and en-
| gagged in the commission business
Morgan City Review.
| All over the South white men are
quitting the Third Party. If they are
shown the snare that has been so cum
ningly laid for them they will all quit
| in Lousiaua.-NewD Delta
The National Negro Tariff Reform
| League has issued an address to the
colored voters, advising them to vote
for cleveland and Stevenson, the rep
resentatiyes of the cause of tariff re-
| form"
Mr.. James Wilkinson, brother of
| Chairman Wilkinson of the State Cen
trail Committee, is an independent can
didate for Congress in the first District.
Mr.. Wilkinson will probably be endors-
ed by the Republicans.
| The Atlanta Constitution says: "There
is still time for the Democrats who have
| been acting with the Third Party to
return. The doors are open. Let them
walk right in, sit down on pumpkin,
and help us skin 'tater.'"
Every banker, merchant, mechanic,
laborer-every citizen-wh0 desires the
| continued progress and prosperity Of
| his State, is opposed to the force bill
A vote against the Democratic electo
| raj or Congressional ticket is vote for
| the force bill.
Every Southern man over thirty-hve
years of age remembers the reconstruct
| ton era and knows the effect of force
| bills. A failure to vote for the Demo-
| cratic candidates for Congress is tact
| Endorsement OF the Infamous measure.
St. Tammany Farmer: The Peoples
Party for the sixth congressional dis
| trict met at Washington, in St. Landry
parish, last week and nominated Hon.
Josiah kleinpeter, of East Baton Rouge,
tor Congress. But that is all the good
it will do him. The Congressional plum
is " not for JOSIAH" it's for Col. Sam
Robertson by a big majority.
1t the cotton picking machine which
appears to have met with such practical
success in the tests made in Texas main
talns the standard of its good work in
ordinary field use, the "negro problem"
will soon begin to simplify. Also, it
will release for development work in
other lines of industrial effort an i'm
mense force of valuable labor-perhaps
in cotton manufacturing, that greatest
of fields for we'll directed effort.-N. 0.
City Item.
Inc story OIL tuaC S0uO,Uuu treasury
surplus, which was so industriously cir
culated in the recent Louisiana cam
paign by the Nichols administrationists
now turns out to be campaign canard.
Treasurer Pickett says that on Decem-
Der 81, 1891, the real surplus in the State
treasury was only about $4,000 and he
thinks the surplus on January 1, 1898. |
will be about S390,000. Mr.. Pickett's |
statement regarding the falsity Of the !
proclaimed 100000 surplus is borne
out by recent interview between Au- |
ditor Heard and the New Orleans
States.-Farmeryille Gazette.
Straws show which way the wind /
blows. There was straw in Maine. |
There was straw in Vermont. There
is whole haystack of straws in Arkan-
sas, Florida and Georgia. Reduced Re
publican majolities here, Increased |
Democratic majorities there surely no
thoughtful man can think that such ,
manifestations, so general and wide
apart mean nothing. They are bound |
to mean that the wind blows with the
Democrats. Tue Democratic sail is
full. The Republican sail willis and |
flaps to the mast.-Louisville Courier
journal.