St. Landry democrat., 1893-05-20
General Notes.


Soto parish.
The Baton Rouge peuIteutlary con-
tains 1913 conylcts.
The Police Jury of East Carroll has
adopted a " DO fence" law.
A Young Mems Christian Association
has been organized in Alexandria.
Lieutenant Peary will start Oh a Sec
ond Arctic exploration tour III July
China's tea crop promises to be large
and of excellent quality this year.
Edwin Booths condition is improving,
and all indications point to recovery.
Mrs. Depew, wife Of Hon, Cbauucey
H. Depew, of New York, died on May 7.
Walters at Indianapolis have been re"
ceiving get month, und have struck
for $40.
In the Veterinary Department OF the
University Of Pennsylvania there are
twenty-five Professors.
The editors of North Louisiana will
hold an immigration Convention III
Shreveport on June Il.
The great rice mill at Lake Charles
is in operation 1t is one of the most
important enterprises in Louisiana.
MIR. William CurIey, a well-known
citizen of Lake Charles, formerly or
Washington, died last week.
President Cleveland, it is said, is ar
ranging to make a tour OF the world af-
ter the close of his present. term.
Free filtered water is provided for
visitors at the Worlds Fair, and 1900
free toilet rooms are at their disposal.
The Florida Press convention was
held in Tallahassee last week: The
meeting closed with an excursion to
Chicago.
Four hundred fathers 10 New York
city struck Wednesday morning on the
refusal of the contractors to advance
wages from 50 so to "a per day.
Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt, Rep, has been
requested by the President to continue
TO serve as ID member OF the Civil Ser
vice Commission. He will do 30.
President Cleveland has given notice
that he will decline all personal Inter
views with office seekers except IN cases
where he invites them to meet him.
Prime Minister Gladstone has offered
the title of poet laureate, made vacant
by tie death Of Lord TcnDyson, to the
distinguished art critic, John Ruskin.
There was heavy suow-storm in
Vienna Oh May 6. On the day before
there was a heavy fall OF snow in Hun
gary, seriously blocking railway traffic.
The city council of Richmond, Va,
has appropriated $4,000 to defray the
expenses incident to the reinterment Of
the remains of Jefferson Davis, May 81.
Americans annually spend 100000
seeing Europe. This year large por-
ton of this money will stay at home and
Europe will spend large sum seeing
our Worlds Fair.
Gu. Lafarguo was tried in Marks
vile last week for killing colored bar
Der, aud the jury failed to agree in
bond OF $4,000.
A pension fraud involving about $780,
600 has been discovered. w. K. Drewry.
an attorney of Norfolk, Va, Is charged
with obtaining tic false claims, aud is
now in the tolls.
Johuathan Stankope, a Wayne Co.,
Ind, farmer, has lett Il check for $500
with the postmaster Of Richmond, Ind,
for Columbian postage stamps, with
which he wants to paper the walls Of
his pariOr,
A statement prepared at the Postottlce
Department show that during the last
two months 155 Presidential postmas-
tiers have been appointed, as against 1854
during the same period in MIR. Harrison's
administration.
Two hundred armed White Caps, last
week went to Brook haven, where Judge
Chrisman was holding court and de-
manded the release of ten White Caps
under Indictment for arson. The firm
ness and GOODNESS of Judge Chrisman
alone prevented them from carrying out
their purpose.
4 dispatch on May from Odessa says
that the Russian cotton epinners boast
that they will soon he in a position to
dispense with American cotton altogeth- !
er. Both Odessa and Batouln are over
stocked with cotton from the Trans Cas-
plan region awaiting transportation to
Moscow and LODI.
During the past year loss of cattle by
exposure to Wintry weather was least in
New Jersey and greatest in Louisiana,
being per cent in the former and 5.3
in the latter state. What is the use of
a mild climate, when the benefits there
of are not taken advantage of?-Texas
Faam and Ranch.