St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-06-10
General Notes.
Cholera is spreading in France.

SeVcIty-1OuflH DlTtIuay.
The sugar bounty payments for The
past year amounted to over %9,00O,OOO.
Large spots have appeared on the sun
and arc visible through u smoked glass
There were fifteen graduates at the
State Normal School, NatchitOcles, this
year.
Gov. Jones, Of Alabama, has pardon
ed Vincent, the defaultiug ex-treasurel
of the State.
Why is the letter "a" the best remedy
for deaf woman ?-Bccau6e it makes
her hear.
The wedding day of the Duke of York
and Princess May Of Teck has been fix.
ed for July 6.
The West Point cadets will spend ten
days or two weeks at the Chicago fail
in August.
Edwin Booth, the greatest tragedan
America ever produced, died in New
York on the 18th.
DR.. Annie, of Cincinnati, has discover
ed remedy for consumption that is &C.
cOmplishing wonderful cures.
1t seems to lie settled that Congress
will meet in special session in Septem-
ber-between the 1st and 18th.
Captain Carter, the newly appointed
| internal revenue collector Of the State,
has taken charge Of his office.
The town of Bayou Sarah has a cir
culating library. Every town and city
| in the State should have one.
Many serious political disturbances
have occurred in different parts of
| Spain, especially in the province of Ma
varre.
Town Talk reports the public library
of Alexandria in good condition, and
says that 1000 new books have been Or
ucred.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
has found DIR. Briggs guilty of heresy,
aud he has been suspended from the
ministry.
Mr.. Day ton, the new postmaster at
New York, Is not an anti snapper but a
Tammanyite. Hurrah for Hill and
Tammany
The New Netherlands IIOtcl,' Just
completed in New York by W. W. AS
tor, is seventeen stories high aud cost
three millions of dollars.
Smallpox is increasing at & othenborg,
Sweden. TWenty-four persons have
died, and the schools and colleges are
closed for fear of Infection.
President Cleveland went fishing last
week on the Virginia coast and caught
lots Of the finny tribe, among them IL
drumfish that weighed forty pounds.
The statue OF "Germania > is one of
tho attractions of the German agricul-
tural exhibit. 1t is a solid block of
chocolate and weighs 1850 pounds.
Mrs. Nevin Blaine, formerly the wife
of James G. Blaine. Jr., and DIR. W. L.
Bull were married i'll Now York last
week. DR. Bull is one OF the most CClc
brated surgeons i'll the city.
Alexandria is to have fair for five
days next October, aud an effort is be-
ing made to erect fine tifty-r0Om brick
600 to the enterprise.
The attendance at the Worlds Fair
has not come up to the expectation of |
its management and if the flock of sight |
seers does not increase the great show |
will be financial failure.
Secretary Lamont has appointed a
to preserve and mark the |
lines of the battle of Gettysburg, Pa,
for which work 1000 was appropriate |
ed by Congress.
Secretary Lamont has awarded the
contract for removing the islands in the
Delaware River, at Philadelphia, to the
American Dredging Company at its bid
Of So, 403,7S0.
During bull-fght at Getafe, near
on May 20 a crowd of men and
boys invaded the ring and worried the
bulls. Two young men were gOred to
heath and many others injured.
Pope Leo, in giving an audience to
Vicomte Vogue ut Rome on May 20, is
'eported to have affirmed in more forci-
Die language than ever his views in IA
7or OF the French republic and of dem
)cratic institutions.
The police at Warsaw, Russian Po-
and, on May 25, discovered a great
Nlhlllst plot. FOrty-eight students,
lxty laborers and eight women have
connected with the conspiracy.
Miss Lizzie Borden, accused of the
murder of her father and STEP mother,
It Fall River, Mass, on the 4th of Au-
Just last, was put on trial last Monday
t New Bedford. She is abont 33 years
Id and appearances are against her. It
9 a very strange case.
Evidences of a formidable dynamite
lot have been discovered by the DO.
ice of Naples. Lodgings of conspicu- i
us anarchists have been searched, and
lany bombs and materials for the man
facture of explosives have been seized
everal anarchists have been arrested.
The recent municipal election held in :
lafayette will be contested by Messrs, ,
Hired Bonnet, James Hammer, Alfred !
[erbert, +. G. TRAY and Henry Church,
Tho were candidates for the council.
he case will be tried on August IA. =
'raud and error are alleged. r
Attakapas Nindicator A new cleo {
on law is demanded by the state press !
18th scarcely single exception, Since g
&c negro is 10 longer diSturber, il il
me that the whites have a square deal, /
nd choose such men as are wanted to
,rve the public. +
Ex-senator Ingalls, recently declared I
le enfranchlsement Of the negro by Il
le North was morally right and prac- :,
cally wrong, because, according to bis a
bservatloD, he is satisfied that the ne I
re is such an inferior race that he is a
lllure, and the best thing to do with I
i'm is to deport him to Africa.
t the present the Southern whites and IL
e negroes are getting along very we'll z