St. Landry democrat., 1893-04-01
General Notes.

General Notes.
Crowley is sending large shipments OF
rough rice to New York. New Orleans
is no longer in it.
Louis Michel, the negro murderer OF
Mrs. Robertson and her daughter, Was
banged in St. Martnsvlle last Friday.
Col. Elliott F. Shepard, the we'll known
editor of the New York Mail and Ex-
press, died suddenly on the gath ult.,
aged 20 years.
A new church choir in Boston has TO,
its soprano Mrs. Maria B. Smith at Ii
salary of $4,000 year, aud for its bass
Myron Whitney on u $4,000 salary.
Confederate veterans of the State OF
Georgia, numbering 5000. wounded IN
the service of the State rs soldiers III
The Confederate Army, received $780,
COO last week.
Buffalo authorities have done we'll fol
the reputation of their city in declaring
against p,iZe fighting. a city that val
ues its good name will not let fighting
get toothold in its limits.-hansas
City Times.
MarksvilIe Review: 1t becomes our
painful duty to chronicle the death OF
our old time friend, college-mate and
army comrade, Hon. Fereol f. PerrodiD,
which sad event occurred at his home
in Rayuo, Acadia parish, on the 18th
inst.
Ex-Congrcssman DlouDt of Georgia
has been Ommssloned by the Govern
:. or to go to Hawaii aud make Il thor
ough investigation of the situation there,
including the influences that brought
about the overthrow of Queen liliou-
kalanl.
Prof. Elisha Gray, the great electrical
| inventor, and the only man in this cOun-
| try who stands second to Edison, has
perfected his telautOgraph, which is an
electric contrivance that reproduces
| the handwriting of a person or any
| drawing that he may make.
Experiments with Egyption cotton
seed are to be made with a view to pro-
| ducing cotton of home growth which
may serve as all efficient substitute for
Egyptian, of which during the last fis-
cal year more than $3,000,O00 worth was
! imported to this country.
Thomas DufiiD, of South Lincolnshire,
England, is ninety-six years old he has
| old a grandson George, who is forty
| seven; great grandson Joseph, who ls
| twenty-five; a great great- grandson
George, aged six years. Thomas hopes
to live to see the fifth generation.
Prof Elisha Gray has invented Won
del full appliance known as the "telau-
tograph, OF long distance writing ma
cllne.' 1t is the telephone idea improv-
a .,v,I h1,
end of the line, transmitted over the wire
aud the words reproduced at the other
end.
Homer Guardian journal: The prize
fights which occur IN New Orleans are
demOrallZlng aud bIutaliZing from ey-
cry standpoint. They are disgrace to
our civilization. We are pleased to OBJ
serve that the press of New Or leans is
demanding that these fights shall cease.
New Orleans should no longer be the
paradise of suggers.
The death of Jules Ferry, the emf
nent statesman and an ex-president of
The senate of France, is announced.
Born April ., 1882, he filed distn-
suished place in French history. He
was an active political opponent of the !
empire, and his articles in the leading
at the dawn of his career, |
at once placed him in the front ranks of |
French writer's and statesmen.
The City of Paris, which sailed from
on Saturday, has on board |
the most precious freight ever sent to
America. Fifty young women, who are
to represent the best types of
beauty of the Old World, were shipped
by the big liner as living chronological
for the Chicago Fair. Selec-
lions were made from several thousand
maidens.-TimesD Democrat.
Jennings Times: Our next legisla-
turo will earn the lasting gratitude of
a large body of people by abolishing
prize lighting from Louisiana. Glove
as they are styled, are moth
ing but brutal prize fights. Our pres
ent law was made with the idea of
limiting istic encounters to contests
with gloves so padded as to prevent in
jury, but the gloves are made to allow
the principals to iDflict serious bodily
injury upon each other, thus violating
the intention, it not The letter of the
law.
The particulars of the pension rob-
berry committed by the Republicans dur
ing the four years of President Harri-
SVtl dtlOJ dlc UcRluuiuS To I
come to light now. 1t has been shown
that over 100000 have been paid out
of the treasury in direct violation of a
ruling Of Assistant Secretary Bussey.
This ruling was made over five months
ago, but it was never promulgated be-
cause the Republicans feared that it
would hurt them in the election. This
little bit of rascality in the pension de-
DartmeDt is nothing more than a drop
n the bucket. and the American people
will be astonished when the whole truth
bursts upon them.-N. O. States.
A street sprinkler will he badly need
I'd here this summer. It Mr.. j. p. Tros-
lair meets with proper encouragement, |
'e will bring a good one here. Those
Who thiuk favorablv Of the project are | +
invited to send their names to Mr. Tros-
lair or leave them at this office. |,