St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-15
General Notes.

Six steamships recently arrived at
New York with $3.50 immigrants.
DR.. Merrill estimates the whole popu-
Iation of Jerusalem at 10000, Ct whom
the Jews constitute about one-halI.
The Liberty Bell and other Philadel-
phia relics will be removed to Chicago
about April %, to be exhibited at the
Worlds Fair.
Ex-king Behunzin Of Dahomey, Afri
ca, is still struggling against the French,
who are obliged to keep 5000 troops to
maintain their authority.
Queen Victoria expects to send speci-
mems of her own work to the Chicago
Fair, among them three landscapes, rep
resenting scenes near Balmoral.
A resolution was passed by the Brit
| ish House of Commons on March "A, by
a vote of 276 to 800, that in future MEM
their services.
The wife Of the present Republican
postmaster at Table Rock, Neb., has APP
peaIed to the new administration to let
the office remain in the family because
she is a stalwart Democrat.
At Chicago last Friday, William
Blunck, aged fourteen years, and Thos.
Luvienne, aged fifteen years, were SEN
fenced to forty years in the peniten tiary
for the murder of Albert Eckroth.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that fugitive from
Justice when returned to a State may be
| tried therein for other offences as well
| as for that specified in the rcquisition.
The two Columbus caravels, the Pinta
and Niua, arrived at Havana, March q,
under escort of the United States war
ships, Newark and Bennington, on their
way to take part in the Columbus naval
review at New York.
The Secretary of the Interior has de-
cided against the Southern Pacific Rail
road Company, in land grant case.
This decision will operate to open thou
sands of acres in Southern California to
settlement aud entry.
Louis kossutl, the great Hungarian
| patriot and statesman, is now over nine
ty years of age and in good health. On
March % a deputation of his fellow
cOuntrymeu waited on him at his resi-
dence in Turin, Italy.
For the first quarter of 1903 the new
l
coed those of the first quarter of 1892 by
1913. There has been a marked increase
in the establishment of woodworking
| plants and cotton seed oil mills.
The statement that Mrs. Aunie Moore,
| of Mount Pleasant, Texas, was the only
woman president of Il national bank in
the country, has brought ont the fact
| Mrs. C.. L. Chadbourn is president of
Nat al ~ fr,f,
| Wis.
The Austrian War Office has accepted
| the bullet proof cloth invented by Herr
| Lylander, an engineer resident in Paris.
The cloth is Il third Of an inch thick,
! and it is said to be more pliable than
that prepared by the tailor, Dove, in
Mannheim, Baden.
French Canadian promoters OF an
nexation to the United States intend to
organize committees in all the French
Canadian centres Of the United States
| with a view to induce the Canadians to
correspond regularly with their friends
and relatives in Canada, imprcssing up
on them the advantages to be derived
from annexation.
England and France have advanced
their representatives at Washington to
the rank of Ambassador. It is expected
that Germany, Russia, Italy, Austria
Hungary and Spain will soon be repre-
scented by diplomatic agents Of that
rank. The President ia authorized to
confer the same rank upon our repre-
sentatives in all such cases.
In their study of statistics the German
authorities have discovered that crime,
pauperism and disease have increased
in proportion as the sale of alcoholic
drinks has increased. They declare
that alcoholism means the deterioration
OF the nation, and the government
promptly seeks to stem the tide bv
throwing stringent, even harsh, restric-
tons around the sale and CONSUMPTION
of liquor.
New Orleans States: All the ar
engagements for the removal of the
remains Of jefferson Davis from this
city to Richmond have been COMPLETED.
and on the 28th of the present month
the casket containing the body which
is now resting in the vault of the Army
of Northern Virginia will be taken up
and under escort forwarded by rail to
Richmond for final interment, in obodi-
ence to the wish Of Mrs. Davis.
n lafm Oh Il poor f0aU is not worth as
much as farm on a good road. The
farm on the poor road may have lust as
good soil, capable Of producing Just as
good crops, and the improvements NAV
be equally as good in every way as those
of the farm on the good road, yet no
man Of sense will pay as much for it.
How true it is then, that no class OF peo-
pie is so deeply and vitality interested in
the improvement of highways as the
farmers themselves.-Ex.