St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-05-28
General Notes,


London is two and a half times as
wealthy as Paris.
Jay Gould was quiet i'll in bis private
| car at Albuquerque, \. NJ. the other
day.
Deschamps died unreconcilcd. lie
blamed the witnesses who told the truth
about his crime.
! Buffalo Gratis are causing great loss
in western Kentucky. 1t is estimated
that 1000 horses have been killed by
them.
| Ar enterprising physician in Califor-
MIA advertises: " will pay half Of the
funeral expenses III cases where | am
not successful.
Cranes, storks and wild geese fly fast
enough to make the trip from northern
| Europe to Africa in week, but most of
them rest north of the Mediterranean.
Grover Cleveland is the undoubted
choice of tho American democracy and
| all indications point to his nomination
at Chicago, and to his election in No
vember.
In the city of Belfast women have
been allowed to vote since the city char
ter was amended a few years ago. The
right was obtained through the efforts
of a woman, Isabella Todd.
News from the famine districts of
Russia is very gloomy. Scurvy has fol
lowed the epidemic of typhus and small
pOX which has swept over the afflicted
provinces.
1t is always a sign of poverty of mind
where men arc ever aiming to appear
great; for they who really are great
never seem to know It,
The Iberville South says that Hon.
Andrew Price positively refuses to be a
candidate for reelection to congress,
and the democracy will have to find
some other person on Whome to bestow
the honor.
Col. r. N. Ogden is among the cand-
dates for Judge of the Court of Appeals
in New Orleans district to fill the vacan-
cy cansed by the expiration of Judge
McGloin's term. Col. Ogden is law
yer of established reputation, brilliant
speaker, and in every respect well quail
flied for the position to which he as
pires.-Ex.
The ThibOdaux Sentinel says the LIE
Blanc cravasse on Bayou Lafourche is
over two hundred feet wide, and all at
tempts to close it have been abandoned.
The damage to crops in the vicinity is
already very great, and the water is
still encroachiDg Oh other plantations.J
but the devastation is limited insI
area on account of the locality Of the |
break.
B. r. Advocate: A negro murderer
was hung the other day in Mississippi |
and pronounced dead by three physici-
ans officially appointed to determine
that question. But he came to life
again, and is now said to be in fair
way for recovery. The question is, is
he legally dead, or can the law take
him again and make him suffer second
time the penalty which he has once paid
for his crime9
A new fast mail system, said to be
capable Of wonderful speed, has been
devised by Dr. B. E. Osborne, of Au-
burn, n. Y. 1t consists of an aerial ell
ectric mail car made of aluminium, sup
ported by compressed hydrogen, and
running on two large trolley wires.
from the wires commune
Gates with the motor inside the car, and
sets into rapid motion a series Of fans
and wings. The front is surmounted by
an electric light. This car, tt is claim
ed, will transport about one hundred
pounds of mail.
The magnitude Of the work which
Louisiana undertakers in the protection
OF its lowIands from inundation is
shown by tho size Of some of the levees
by the State. The grand
Morganza levee, for example, has base
OF 22O feet-Or over ali acre in width at
The bottom with "A height of 30 feet and
4 crown of 10 feet. 1t is said to be the
largest levee in the world. The maxim
Of levee builders now is that safety is
simply question of dirt and plenty
Of it.
Alexandria Times: The first reports
If the recent earthquake shocks in Cal
fornia were much exaggerated. There
seems to have been no truth in the ru-
nors of villages destroyed and citizens
leeing for their lives. The lurid dcs-
,riptions of things imagined, but not
seen, were the invention of some space
writer who sliced the opportunity of
making sensation.
Why do the press of the defeated fac
ion keep declaring that McEnery was ]
he regular nominee? What difference {
loes it make whether he was the regu-
ar nominee or not since he was defeat d
d by the popular vote of the people p
huston Progressive Age.
Drat it," old man, don't you know
he difference between defeating a
nan by :" the popular vote of the peo-
lie" and defeating him by stuffing bal ,
OF boxes and false counting IN. 0.
'tates.
Alexandria Times: Gen. Leon JAS
remski, editor of the Louisiana Re- c
Jew, published in New Orleans, is here 7
tending the meeting Of the grand +
Ddge K. of p. Gen. Jastremski is pres
dent of the State Press association. :
Ie has authorized the Times to an
ounce that the Association will meet I
q Alexandria on the first Monday in
august. The General favors the idea
t giving an excursion after the asso-
iation has completed its labors, and
uggest trip to St. Louis over the new
[ouston, Central Arkansas g. Northern
ailway.
A new cruiser of the smaller class will
BON be launched at Bath, Me. The q
anne of the vessel will be the Castine,
sister ship of the Matthias, which is +
ow getting ready to be put in commits
on. The Castine is about 300 feet long, {
as draught of - feet and maximum h
Deed of Il knots an hour. Her anna i
tent will consist of eight 4-inch rapid Il
re guns, and secondary battery of
,ur FOUNDER and two FOUNDER rapid
re guns, which is considered to be
cry good armament for vessel of her
re and draught.
The Mississippi river at this time pre-
'nts perplexing problem in the flood
ne exhibited at various points south of
emphis. At the latter point it is only
little above the danger line, but at
reenville and Lake Providence, not
any miles below the water is higher 50
IAN ever before known, and still ris- /
q At New Orleans il is ONLY q few