St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-07
General Notes.
The days are getting longer.

lie days are getting longer.
+ Mr. Gladstone was eighty three yeal
Old on December 30.
t The total vote in the last Presdentia
t election was 12,0279S8.
III Bueuos Ayres horses are SO plenti
f 1ul that beggars beg OH horseback.
=, Two hundred and eighty-nine buI
fights took place in Spain during 1897?
, The tax budget for New York CITY 70
: the year 1893 shows the enormous tota
of S37,4H,154.
, The professors in the colleges of Spai
are miseGably underpaid, often receiv
ing no more than $500 per year.
, Leading bicyclists propose to build a,
+ asphalt road thirty to thirty-tive fee
wide from Chicago to New York.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is th,
best paid member of the British govern
ment. His salary is 100000 per annum
On Dec. ~ the corner stone was lait
in New York Of Protestant Episcopa
Cathedral which is to cost $4,000 OOt
when completed.
The duke Of Portland has given $780,
OUU to charities, according to agreement
with his wife to so use all money wen a.
the race track.
The two hundredth anniversary of the
art Of printing in New York is to be
celebrated on the 18th Of April next by
a dinner at DeImonicO's.
1t is reported that there has been an
either collision between the Yaqui IN
dams and the Mexican troops, in which
the latter were very much worsted.
Commercial travellers, it is said, SIM.
port two-thirds of the country hotels in
America, to say nothing of instructing
the proprIetors how to manage them.
The Presidential electors of the sew
eral States will meet and organize the
electoral college, cast their votes, etc.
on the second Monday in January, the
9th.
The naval vessels now in process of
construction at various shipyurds in
this country are estimated to cost S53,-
100000, and merchant vessels building
are valued at ~4,500,000.
American lard is being sold in the
city OF Mexico AS fast as received at q
wholesale price Of twenty-five cents
per pound, while native lard is held at
twenty-slx cents a pound
Miss Mary L. Garrett, The rich Balti-
more lady. has just given to the Johns
Hopkins University 53OGo11 to COM
plete tie department for tho higher
medical education OF women.
y $4,000 fire occurred on Govern
ment street. Baton Rouge, Oh December
J.
owned by Colonel L. >ambola Jones,
and ColorCd church were Gcst,nyrI
1t has been decided to uuld a public
wharf at Lake Arthur, which will be /
500 feet long by IL feet wide, + at tho
eha 4ix6l feet. 1t will give live feet of !.
WAY "".j jont 81 '-t ~ water, and accommodate
Alleged gold fields near tie I....:
OF the San Juan aud Colorado Rivers, IN /
Utah, are attracting thousands of pros
pectoIs from Arizona, New Mexico, Col |
orado and TIA h. Nearly 5000 people |
are already Oh the sGouo.
Abhcvillc Melidional We learn that
DR.. W. d. White and W. Oscar Pines,
OF the Washington Argus have pur-
chased the Star newspaper and will CON
tinue the business. Brethren, we salute
ye, Be ye OF coed cheer.
The last Democratic governor of ILL.,
nos was Joel A. Matteson, Who was in
augurated Jan. 10, 1858. The next Dem
oCratlc governor, Judge Aitgeld, will be
Jan. 8, 1898. Forty wears
IS !Gng time between, etc.
The big Auditorium building in Chi
cago continues to sink through the cjty's
hin crust. The steps were broken last
and now the massive pillars in
he basement are going down, aud tho
Hing and iron work have been broken
md twisted ont of shape.
Letters dropped in the Paris postotice
ire delivered in Berlin, 80 miles dis
ant, in an hour and a half by means of
'neumatlc tables. 4 beginning is pro- 9
lnsed here, between New York and
Brooklyn, which certainly deserves sue. q
ess. |
Media, Pa, appears to be doing more
han Its share towards helping the couD- |
~ to grow up. Samuel Field of that
own, has twenty eight children Joseph
handler. has twenty-five children
ames Barrett, has sixteen children, and j
William Wright can corral fifteen.
IT you are at all timid in turning into a
our berth in the sleeper, remember =
lahthe confident statistician assures You +
rat the chance of your being killed is =
ut in Il, 1928, 1853. That deduction from =
re law OF probability, together with
tile habltude and some fatigue, will p
end you to sleep.
The small comet discovered by Prof.
rocks, of Geneva, N. Y, on Nov, 10.
As moved through the constellation D
ootes into the Dragon. The comet j.
10 oe seen through an opera glass and u
i'll be barely visible to the naked eve.
is now about III 100000 miles from
e sun and 6S,000,000 miles from the Il
nth.
A Chesteltown (Ald.} special to the
altimore Sun says: SHERIFF Edward
Plummer bas purchased the lumber q
+ tho scaf1old upon which the eight b
en- and boys convicted of the murder
DR.: j. Ii. Hill will be executed, and b.
pcrfectlns all Unnecessary arrangements -
he galloWs will be 20 feet long and 8
ct wide, The main beam will ho of
eorgia pine by 8 inches There will til
four traps ~ feet each, on each of pl
Ilch Will stand two persons"
Ia ninety nlno cases out Of a hundred
migrants conc III the steerage. Thus, al
taxing the required precautions To
ep cholera out of the country we are
mpelled to suspend lmmigration for
time being. 1t is freely conceded TT
at many Immigrants are desirable
rsons whom the country could profita-
? welcome and whom it has sought and
lcomed all along, but the supreme
ty OF the country in this crisis ia to o..
)tect ltself.~-St. Louis Globe Demo