St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-23
General Notes,
The people want to get the news,
And want it crisp and neat;

The people want to get the news,
And want it crisp and neat;
TIE DEMOCRAT fully meets their views
They say it can't be beat.
Eight persons have lately died in New
YOrk and vicinity, from eating toad
stools, mlstaking them for mushrooms.
From Lloyd's report it appears that
1,00S vessels were lost in 1892 of which
429 were British and 1876 American.
1t is said that in London over a thou
sand children arc annually suffocated
in bed while sleeping with their pa
| rents.
The Chinese government is preparing
a protest against Frances new aggrcs-
sions in Siam, and has given orders that
the Chinese squadron OF ironclads be
made ready to sail at moments notice.
Russian intolerance is now manifest
ing itself in hostility to Roman Catho-
liCism. Early in the year nearly all the
Polish employees OF the railroads of
western Russia were dismissed.
Letters from Moscow say that eighty,
five students, eight professors and five
women OF rank have been arrested there
on suspicion that they were implicated
in Nihilist plot against the cZar's life.
The Russian government has post
pOned until June next the final transfer
OF Jews to their assigned places in the
Jewish Settlement. The Minister of
the interior is empowered to grant de-
lays in certain cases.
A Missouri girl recently adopted q De-
culiar method OF consulting the Oraces
OF fate as to her prospective matrimo-
nial venture. She wrote the names of
her three admirers on as many eggs and
placed them under a setting hen. The
lucky swain whose name adorned the
egg first hatched, received the maiden's
hand
Secretary Gkesbam, last week, COM
municated to She Chinese Minister the
Presidents order that the "Geary Ex-
clusion law " should "not be enforced
pending further action by Congress-"
and said that the recent order for the
deportation of Chinese from the Pacific
coast had been suspended for the pres.
ent.
Prince Bismarck is suffering with
sciatica, and the disease is assuming a
serious character. The pain does not
allow him to leave his bed, and the least
movement causes him immense suffer.
ing. The sClatlca has reached his arms
and prevents him from using his hands,
80 that it is necessary for his attendants
to feed him. He is seventy-eight years
old.
The whole district around Barritz, |
France, the Summer resort on the Bay
Of BlsCay, has been reused to indigua- !
ton by the report that the government |
will suppress bull fighting in France. |
The bulls have been bought and the to-
readers have been engaged for fight |
in BayOnne, five miles from Biarritz, |
and il the government interferes there !
will surely be riots.
Farmerville Gazette: The New York
Times says that two years ago Senator
Don Cadery received in bounty on his
sugar crop $1s5,0O0 and that the pros
)ects are good this year for him to re-
;eive still larger sum. SO Don will
lot be entirely poor helpless orphan
wen if be does lose the United States
senate, which he is sure Of doing. The
is on the wall ard Cousin
)on's name is Dennis
The largest crop Of sugar produced in
louisiana before the war, was 475,000,-
OO pounds In single year. Last year,
be yield was 450,O00,0O0 pounds. This
ear, it is estimated at $50, 900, 900 pounds.
This would beat the record rs 100000
'ounds. This result is to be attributed
o the impetus that the sugar bounty
as given to the cultivation of sugar
ane in Observation-Disclosures Review.
Rice Crop Bulletin.
In Bulletin No. 5, Rice crop 1893, New
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