St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-03-18
General Notes.

The Star reports the death OF col
ored woman i'll AbOeville at 107 years.
She left 145 descendants.
1t is stated that the rice acreage in
| Plaqucmnes parish this season will be
| less than half what it was last year
The House has passed a bill giving to
each member Of Congress the services
of clerk at salary of 500 month.
President Cleveland has sent to the
Senate message withdrawing the lla-
waian treaty which has been pending
in the Senate.
Ex-Prcsident Harrison has accepted 4
protessorship in the Leland Stanford
| University of California. lie will de-
| liver a series of lectures on constltu-
| tjonal law, commencing in October.
| Coy. Foster has signed the death
warrant of Louis Chambers and Lewis
Mitchell, tho murdorers of Mrs. Robert
son and her daughter in st. Martinsville.
They will be hanged on the Gath inst.
Both branches of the Washington
Legislature have passed bill making it
unlawful in that State to manufacture,
| buy, sell, or give away, or to have III
ones possession, cigarettes or cigarette
papers.
Ina glove contest in San Francisco a
few days ago between Billy Miller and
Dan Hawkins the former received a
fatal blow, causing death almost in
stantly. The California Legislature has
already passed bill making prize fight
ing a felony
\ famous soap man was once asked
why he did newspaper advertising
altogether and did not follow in the
footsteps of other manufacturers, put
ting I'D sign boards, printing almanacs,
etc. He replied that in his experience
he had found that the men who did not
take the newspapers never used soap
The fact that Col. Herbert, who serv-
ed in the Confederate army, is now at
the head Of the United States navy, has
called attention to the law which would
prevent him from holding even the
humblest commission in the United
States army. Is it not time to repeal
this absurd statute ?-Louisville Cou
rier-Journal, Dem.
In spite of the Wintly weather cholera
is spreading in several sections. Rus
sia's latest reports indicate that about
800 new eases daily are occurring in the
district of X amenez- Eodolsk. The med
ical men of Europe have seldom been 50
unanimously gloomy in their diagnosis
of threatened evil as i'll this matter of
the cholera epidemic the coming sum-
mCr.
The ground upon which Sandgate,
Kent County, Eng, stands sunk several
feet on Saturday night last. In all
about one square mile was affected.
The town is built upon Il comparatively
low cliff close to the SEA. The waves
are believed to have undermined the
cliff, which then settled and slipped to-
wards the water. Two hundred houses
were destroyed,
The grand jury, at Columbus, Ind,
caused service to issue on Friday last
Oh hundred ladies and gentlemen, the
society leaders of the city. The charge
cbre in which prizes are Offered. The
professional gamblers, who arc seeking
revenge for having their business sup
pressed are the instigatOrs Of these &C
tIOns.
Plaauemiues Protector: Hundreds OF
dollars would annually be saved to the
parish of plaquemlncs if the powers of
the justices OF the peace were extended.
III Clittllldi CdStS, tlio .;uStlItS VI tlIC
peace sits merely as Il committing mag
istrate with no powers to punish Offend
ers not even in cases of misdemeanOrs.
Hundreds of petty cases are thus COM
mitted to the district court, the majority
of which resulting in acqulttals and en-
failing heavy costs to tax payers.
The wisdom of segregation OF the
races-which is even now judicially ad-
mitted-when travelling through the
State upon the railroads, applies with
equal, If not greater force, to travel
through the streets of a large city in
crowded cars. Hence, we can conceive
of no valid or substantial reason why a
separate street car system should not be
inaugurated and be given the benefit of
a trial in New Orleans. - Louisiana
Democrat.
We are glad to see that part OF tho
press of the State has come out boldly
in favor Of an anti-miscegenation law,
out wound DO better pleased to have ev-
cry Democratic paper in the State ad-
vocate it.
Let the press agitate the question and
build up such a strong sentiment in IA
vor of it, that at the next session of the
Legislature, no white man will dare op-
pose the measure when it is brought up
for consideration.-Iberville South.
The Oates cotton tax refund bill has
been reported favorably by the House
committee on judiciary. A refund of
that tax will put millions in the South.
Caldwell Waterman.
Yes, the Cotton tax-llcgal, unconsti-
tutional aud indcfensble from every
and-pont-was collected exclusively
from the Southern States, but that is
just exactly the reason why it will new
er be refunded. The direct tax-now
in process Of being refunded to those
from whom it was collected-was levied |
in pursuance of ample warrant in the
Constitution, but the bulk of it is being
returned to the pockets of the people of
the Northern States, else the passage of |
the bill for The purpose of returning it
to those who paid it, never would have
received the sanction of Republican |
Sepato and Observation-Disclosures Dem |
OCrat.