St. Landry democrat., 1893-11-18
General Notes.
Tic people want to get thc.neW~,
And want it crisp and neat;

Ana want lt crisp ana neat;
THE DEMOCRAT fuily;meets their views
! They say it can't be heat.
! Wyoming in area is one and hall
as large as New England and has q
most agreeable climate.
The government las appropriated six
! million dollars to establish a deep sei,
! harb0r on the Gulf OF Mexico.
The Viking ship has lett Chicago for
| st. Paul, and thence will go down the
Mississippi River to New Orleans.
The New Orleans mint is now run
ming on full time, turning out standard
silver dollars and fractional silver coin.
The bullion value of tic silver dollar
| fell, on Tuesday of last week, to fifty
three cents; the lowest point ever
! touched.
On Tuesday of last week The paid ad-
missions to the Fair numbered 1920,
and by Saturday they had dwindied
down to J,1S1.
The total Of paid admissions to the
Fair up to Oct. 81 WAS 21 ,477,2l2, aud on
passes was .Oj2, ,1SS, making grand to-
tai OF y, ,529, 400 admissions.
1t is claimed that, aftcl every debt is
paid, there will remain @l,00O,00O, and
possibly more, TO be divided among the
stockholders Of the Exposition.
In thirty counties in the West Of Kan
sas the wheat crop is Il failure and the
governor has been appealed to for re-
lief. II is the wolst drought for thirty
years.
The White Caps, oi Arkansas, arc be-
coming very active i'll their enucavor to
stop any movement of the cotton crop
until the piice reaches ten cents Il
pound.
Private adyiccs from st. pttel sburg
say that the czar continues to show tic
kcencst interest in the work Of reorsan-
izing the fleet aud making Russia a res
pectable naval power.
According to q Treasury statement
the per capita circulation increased dur
ing October twenty cents, to S2549. In
other words S1G,6O4,7G were added to
the money in circulation.
In Brunswick, Ga, many more colored
than white people have been attacked
among the whites has been 1879 per cent,
among the Negroes only go per cent.
Eugene Prendcrgast, Garter Harri-
sons slayer, was arrai gned for trial in
Chicago, on Monday, but on the request
of his counsel, a three weeks postpone
ment was granted The defence will be
insanity.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court
has decided that the interchangeable
mileage law passed by the last Legisla-
ture, requiring that all railroads in the
State shall honor mileage books issued
by any of the roads, is unconstitutional.
Lake Charles Americans: The cane is
now coming in at lively rate over the
Watkins Route to the sugar refinery.
A train load day arrives, which has
largely increased the freight business.
The mill now consumes over three bun
dred tons a day.
The first four months of the current
fiscal year the expenditures of the Gov
ernment have exceeded the receipts by
S24,000,000. The heaviest falling off in
revenues is in the customs duties, which
have decreased s19,0O0,000 as compared
with the same period of 1892.
Streams of lava poured out of Mount
Vesuvius on Sunday, and the eruption
attracted crowds OF sishtseers to the
mountains. Among others who have
gone to the mountains in order to watch
the nights spectacle is the Crown Prince
of Naples and his suite.
A new industry has been secured for
Texas; the raising of Java Silk Ramie.
It still sells low in BeXar county where
the industry started, the price being but
five cents pound after curing, still the
yield is 1900 to 5000 pounds to the acre,
bringing in S225 to $3.50 per acre which
pays much better than cotton.
Orders were issued on Friday, TO the
superintendeuts of the Mints at San
Francisco and Philadelphia, to resume
the coinage Of standard silver dollars.
This is done in order to make the sci
gniorage on the coinage available for
use by the Treasury. The Government
holds, subject to coinage, 140,00O,000
ounces Of silver on which the seignio-
rage would amount to $3.50 900, repre-
senting SO much clear gain to the Gov
arnmpnt