St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-29
General Notes.


The cholera has broken out in Naples !
and in other PORTIONS of Italy.
Dr. Talnase received 5000 for Il two
hours lecture at the Atlanta Chautau-
qua.
The total number OF c"lorcd troops in
war was 1SG,011.
Chaunccy NJ. Depcw attributes Tie H.
nancial situation to an unWalrantcd
scare on account of silver.
n largo black turtle, weighing nearly
1000 pounds, was caught OFT Cape Look
out, North Carolina, last week.
1t is said that canvass of Congress
has made 1t apparent that a stubborn
fight will be made on the silver qucs-
ton.
The longest fence in the world is in
Austraia-1,23G miles. 1t is made Of
wire netting and its Object is to keep
out rabbits.
A fire destroyed Keilfer Bros. shoe
store, Canal street, New Orleans, on the
21st. Loss about S250,000. A fireman
also lost his life.
An electrical journal estimates the
length of telegraph lines in the world
at SS1 900 miles Or enough to enclrcle
the globe thirty three times.
Commissioner Lochren has dropped
PAS fraudulent pensioners from the rolls
and has suspended over 5000 pensioners
pending investigation of their cases.
The German Army bill passed its
second reading in the new Relchstag on
July IA, 10y a majority OF II, aud its third
aud final reading on July Is by POI to 1855.
Tho Prussian government is making
an experimental boring in Prussian
Silcsia which has reached a depth of u
mile and a quarter and is still progress
ing.
BY vote of "a to 4 the luca! directory
of the Fair decided to close the EXPOSE
ton on Sunday after July 16. This &C
ton was due to the small attendance on
Sunday.
The Right Hon. Stuart knill, lord
mayor of London, Roman Catholic,
has been made baronct, an honor not
usually bestowed before tho mayors re-
tirement from Office.
1t will hereafter bo unlawful to kill ALI
gators in Lafo-.cllc, and any one found
guilty is subject to a fine of $500 An
ordinance to that effect was passed 10y
the Police jury last week.
France and Siam are about to engage
in war. Should they do SO, England
and Russia may become involved, and
possibly Germany and China also. Then
won't there be fun
Queen Victoria takes great interest !
in the study Of llindustani, and has be- |
come so proficient in the language that !
when rajah from her Indian dominion |
visits her she cnnverses with him in his |
native tongue.
Two men were SO busily engaged |
fighting on the tracks OF the New Haven |!
Railroad last Thursday that they did !
not hear The whistle of an approaching ,
express train. They were both struck |
and instantly killed.
The Milwaukee police arrested |
" Frank Blunt" for larccncy last week
and, after the arrest, found they had a
Young woman who for fifteen Years had
worn Il mans attire, and had had a
rough and varied experience.
The bank failures in The South during
the severe strain ln money circles have |
been few and far between. 1t is q big
for the South and she is
sure to reap big rewa,l.-Monroe Tel
cgraph- Bulletin.
A tiny elephant, three years old,
thirty-six inches high, three feet long,
aud weighing about 1853 pounds, is on
in Berlin. The dwarf phe-
is from Sumatra. Its normal
kin weigh at the same age from three
to three and a half tons.
The Police Jury met last week and
fixed the entire rate of taxation as fol-
lows: General Fund a. mills; Public
School Fund 24 mill School House
Fund J mill; and Drainage Fund /
mill :; making total of s mills. The
same as last year.-Thibodaux Sentinel.
In answer to a French papers offer of
q prize for the best example of micros-
copic writing, correspondent sent in
the history of Christopher Columbus
written on an egg. Another wrote
Francois Coppee's novel "Henrietter
of 10000 words, on the back Of cabinet
Tho latest nomination of cardinals
has raised the existing number of men,
bers in the Sacred College to sixty three.
OF the cardinals thirty-f four are Italians,
seven are French, five Austrians, five
Germans, four Spanish, two Portuguese,
two American (Taschereau and Glib
bons), one English, one Irish, one Aus
tralian and one Belgian.
The growth of the orange industry in
Florida has increased from production
Of 100000 boxes in 1885 to 100000 for
the season inst closed, and according to
estimates the coming crop
will be fully 100000 boxes, Of which
over 100000 will be marketed. The
average price received by growers the
past season was 81 81 per box.
A controversy is raging in ST. Louis
,bout the identity of the last surviving
soldier of the Revolutionary war. The
'ucts seem to indicate that this obscure
Individual was John Gray, who died at
o., March %, 1868, and who
les buried ,here in an almost unmark-
ID grave. He was 104 years old at the
lime of his death, and was Continent
al soldier when only sixteen years old.
james NJ. Bowling. cashier of the mint
It New Orleans, was arrested last week
charged with embeZzling $2j 200. He is
sOn-in- law of the late Il. G.. Anderson
Several weeks ago mysterious tte oc
.urred in the mint vault aud a large
nm of money was said to have been
destroyed. Downing accounts for the
shortage in that way. 1t was never
boWD, however, how the fire originated.
Lieut.. Powiiattan Clarke, of the Tenth
United States Cavalry, formerly % resi-
lent of Rapides, was drowned on the
list in the Little Big Horn river, Mon
ana, near the spot where the Sioux
TILED Custer II years ago. He dived