St. Landry democrat., 1893-06-17
General Notes.

All indictments growing out of the
strike at Homestead last year have been
quashed.
Seventy furniture factories in Gin
cinnati, O., have shut down, throwing
5000 men out OF work.
Mrs. Frank Leslie expects very soop
to get divorce from Mr.. Wilde and
will then sail for Europe.
A pension attorney of Lime Springs
aud doctor of Cresco, Ia, arc under ar
rest charged with pension frauds.
The new postmaster at Dundee, Mich,
has, among his other qualifications, Il
mustache measuring 30 liz inches from
tip to tip.
The Saylor family, of Maycndale, Pa,
which now numbers seventy eight
mem bers, has experienced but one death
in tue past 81 years.
A company of blind men recently
made a trip Oh bicycles from London to
Birmingham, England, a distance of
over one hundred miles
A tornado in Texas last week killed
and fatally wounded six persons and
caused much damage to property in
Wharton County.
Two country houses, one in Kansas
and one in West Virginia, were destroy
ed by fire last week, and in each fire two
children lost their lives.
The failure of the natural gas wells
at Findlay, O., has ruined the town.
Six hundred dwellings are already
empty and now the removal of the glass
works will take away 1900 people.
Louisiana Democrat: An election
law must be devised, framed and put in
operation, which will register and give
effect to the voice of the people as ex-
pressed at the ballot box.
Miss Carrie Kirby Smith, daughter of
Gen. Z. Kirby Smith, is an applicant for
the post office at SeWaunec, Tennessee,
and she has the hearty endorsement of
both Federal and Confederate veterans
Louisiana Democrat The dangerous
and practically unlimited patronage
now welded by the Governor of Lousi.
ana, is inconsistent with the elective lib.
erty Of the citizen and mast be abolish
ed.
The Worlds Fair management have
just given out the monthly financial
statement for May. 1t shows that the
Fair, during May, made S250,00Q over
operating expenses. The latter are still
being cut down and hereafter Il better
showing is expected.
The House of Commons is still en-
gagged with clause three OF the Home
Rule bill, about ninety amendments to
which have yet to be disposed of. In
less some extraordinary steps are taken
there will be no chance to get the bill
through! the committee before the end
of July.
3. II. Capital Item: The Item is in
formed that Capt. Louis Kirkland, of
West Baton Rouge, has just realized a
crop of ninety-three barrels OF Irish po-
tatoes from two barrels of seed potatoes
planted on one acre of gIouD1. TIE
patch was formerly the site Of an old
cotton gin and the soil was AS rich as
cream. This shows what can be done
by fertilizug and proper cultivation.
Reports from several cities of Asiatic
Turkey say that the cholera has appear
ed in many districts and it is spreading
rapidly. Along the lower Tigris and
the Shatel-Arab rivers, people are dying
in great numbers. Whole villages have
been deserted by those fleeing from the
pest. Some families do not even wait
to bury their dead; and the fuaitives
from stricken towns carry the epidemic
with them.
n. Q. States; Commissioner of PEN
sions Lochren commenced the work of
wedding out the frauds on the nension
rolls by the appointment of Board of
Revision, composed of twenty-three
men, who were selected especially for
their fitness. They will draw from the
files the cases wherein pensions were
granted by Raum and Busscy under
Section 2 of the Act of 1890, and will dis
allow all pensions which were granted
in disregard of the terms OF that act. !
1t is estimated that the board will have |
800, 900 cases to examine, and that their !
work will be done under the Instructions
of Judge Lochren.