The Opelousas courier., 1893-04-15
NEWsY GLEANINGs,
INFLUENZA is spreading in Sweden.

CHICAGO is threatened with a coal famine.
THE visible supply Of wheat is 113, 712, 900
bushels.
In Oregon the snow is deeper than for
thirty years.
THERE are ~forty-one log school houses in
New York State.
AMERICAN lard sells for twenty-five cents
apound in Mexico.
The number Of Russian convicts sent to
Siberia averages 700 a month.
THE cotton crop movement for January
was the smallest in five years.
The United States Treasury estimate for
sugar bounties is now IS, OOJ,Wo.
ITALY's bank scandal grows with investl-
cation, and great names are ..evolved.
JApAN's Legislature has Hten petitioned
to expel all Britishers from tsHrt country
THERE is less gold in th&SOnited States
Treasury now than at any I'll. , since 1879.
TEN E CENT. of the teachers in Chica-
COS public schools are said to be incompe'
tent.
KAL1sPELL, Montana, q town only six
months old. has just been made a thlrd-class
postofice.
The United States foreign for
the last fiscal year amounted to over two
billion dollars.
COLD weather greatly damaged game i4
Virginia. cartridges and hares froze and
starvedin great numbers.
The French Government has made a
formal announcement that it cannot accept
the British occupation of Egypt.
The number of immigrants who arrived
at Ellis Island, New York City, during jan
uary, 1893, was II, 239, against Ii, 76l in JAN
uary, 1892.
A CLUB called the Washington Club
composed of Americans and Gsrman-Ameri-
can residing in Berlin, Germany-has just
been formed.
AT Bucharest the National custom Of
marrying thirty-two couples, representing
the thirty-two districts Of Roumania, has
just been celebrated.
DURING the past year there were 1881
commitments to the penal institutions OF
Massachusetts,. OF this number 1910 were
males and 2453 females.
THERE are now registered in the Province
of New Brunswick 945 vessels, with 90 az
gregate tonnage of 1s0, 953-a great falling
off from previous years.
The Canadian Government is hunting up
evidence of treason against q large number
of Government officials who have declared
themselves as anaexationists.
HE Oudjud 1AOldAo, VI 4uNL ASGthSb -
roasted alive three traders who we're caught
stealing young Indian girls for the purpose
of selling them into servitude.
GOVERNOR FIsHgAcK, of Arkansas. has
issued a call for a convention of Southern
Governors to meet at Richmond, Va, April
IL, to devise a means to develop the South.
TIE total exports of gold and coin iq
bullion last year were $40. 9 $3.50, and OF
| silver, S22, 34i, 995. During the same period
| the cold imported was valued at %, 504, SIS,
and Of silver 50, 1888, 119.
The report of the Commissioner Of Pat
| ents calls attention to great insprovenaents
In the office under the working Of classified
service rules. There were 81, 497 patents is-
sued to citizens of the United States during
i last year, and 205l to foreigners. Ths net,
receipts were over s. 100000, and the
amount Of recsipts over expenditures Sl7o,"
800.
INDIAN AGENT McLAUaHLIN, in charge OF
the agency at Standing Rock, North Dakota,
has written to the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs calling attention to the increase OF
drunkenness among Indians enlisted In the
regular army and the consequent democrat.
izatien of Indians On the reservations, and
asking thai some measure be adopted to cor.
rect this evil.