St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
General Notes.

| Three hundred ana ntty students Sla-
duatcd at Harvard University this year.
The watermelon crop Of Georgia THIS
year is estimated to be something like
Is, 900 car loads
Out of $3.50 900 appropriated 10y Con
gress for the recent Eaval review only
S76,S0O was spent.
Secretary Smith has dropped twenty
eight special examiners, all Republicans,
from the rolls of the pension office.
The silver men will meet in Chicago
on July IS, to devise measures to pre-
vent the RECOMMENDATION OF silver.
The drought in Western Kansas is so
severe that the crops have failed and
farm ers arc asking State aid to get seed
wheat.
The bar-rooms of South Carolina clos
ed their doors with the close Of last
week, and the State took exclusive con-
troll Of the business.
The total receipts of the & government
for the year 1892 93 were $3.50. 100000,
and the expenditures S3S3,000.000, lsav
ing a surplus OF only S2,OOO,OC0.
The gold reserve in the United States
Treasury reached the lowest point June
s, when it was $50 ,959,3G3. Since then
il has increased over six million dollars
There are 5000 lawyers and the same
number of liquor saloons in New York
city, which Is therefore said to have
about the biggest bar practice in the
county.
An artcslan we'll with two pipes, one
of which SpUutS pure cold water, the
other warm water strongly impregnated
with iron, is /; curiosity Of the town OF
Selma, Ala.
The Duke of Neragua and party left
for Frabco last Saturday week on board
the steamship La Bretagne. lie ex-
pressed himself as delighted with his
visit to this county.
The department of agriculture re-
ports the acreage OF cotton THIS season
slightly increased, but says that the
average condition is not quite as good
as this time last year.
The number of camps in the L. c. V.
has reached 800, OF which Texas has liz
and Mississippi 80, Louisiana ranking
third with q, Alabama and Florida hay
ing % each aud Kentucky %
Paul Cormier, ii young mal- 90 years
of age living near CarencrO, WAS over
come by the heat whilst at work in the
field last Monday, and expired a short
| time Observation-Disclosures Advertiser.
The oldest newspaper in the world is
said to bc the British Press, first issued
in 1862. Three years later the London
Ga-ettc was started, being published in
Oxford on account Of the great plague
in London.
Mrs. L. S. Grant and Mrs. jefferson
Davis are staying at the same hotel at
West Point aud met each other recent
ly. They exchanged warm greetings
and had Il long conversation in Mrs.
Davis room.
In the Midway PIaisance at the Fair
| it is not uncommon to see DahOney
man, sitting in front of hut, engaged in
needlework, while his wife or other fe-
male member OF the family, sits by
smoking a cigar.
1t is said that a lake of ink, over an
acre in extent, has just been found in
the extremely volcanic region on the
eastern boundary OF Lower California.
1t is dull grey IN Il liquid state, but
changes to ii very deep black when dry.
California miners propose, as practi-
cal solution OF the gold strlngency, that
the government remove the restrictions
ON hydraulic mining, which, if done at
once, would, it is claimed, increase the
output of gold 100000 before winter.
The Tammany Society observed the
glorious Fourth with a grand p0w-WOw,
at which there was a flow of OratOry.
Among the speakers was Hon. Champ
Clark OF Missouri, who sounded the key
note Of 1896, "a trans mississippi man
on Missouri PLATFORM"
The pope has given his consent to the
proposal that Maestro Mustafa, director
of the choir of the Sistne Chapel and
the members Of the choir should visit
Chicago and sing there during the pro-
gress of the Exposition. This will he
will have sung outside the Holy City.
BY order of commanding General J.
b. Gordon, the reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans which was to
have taken place at Birmin CHAM, Ala,
j. deferred until the 18th and 10th of
X September, and General Underwoods
projected excursion to various Northern
= prisons and to the Worlds Fair and un-
:, yelling at Chicago will be correspond
r lngIy postponed.
q A meeting between Mrs. Grant aud
Is Mrs. Jefferson Davis took place recent
= ly at West Point, but sensational fea-
v tures were lacking. One of them grasp
d ed the hand of the other and said, Il am
a very glad to see you," and then they sat
d down aud had quiet chat for few
/ moments That was all.
!, Monroe Telegraph Bulletin: Tie
u Louisiana appointments made by Pres-
y dent Cleveland ale all good and will
II give almost unjve! sal satisfaction. The
y distribution was non factiunal, thanks
, to the Louisiana delegation, and the
IL party in this State, as whole, will be
y benefited.
II The Irish home rule bill is in danger
y of defeat by the chickering's of the Irish
70 factions. 1t is pity and a shame that
petty jealousics should make a brave
people forgetful of their common heri
ir tage OF wrong and oppression and by
# divisions among themselves lose the
v grand opportunity for liberation offered
- 10y Mr.. Gladstone.
e Representatives of all the Govern
e ment departments have decided to ac-
cept the bid of the Paramount Ice Com
paDy of Philadel phia to furnish ice at
e twenty cents n hundred pounds. This
v will very likely have the effect Of break
u ing up the Washington ice combine.
70 Don't bny a gig, buggy o, phnton IN
J. til Won have examined and pricnI thnSf