St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-22
General Notes.

: -Ex.
| The real rua6uu why negroes 1.-Two to
I such aU extreme old age is they don
know exactly when they We're burr.-
! SiftiDgs.
The dowascr Duchess of Sutherland
was sent to jail for six weeks last Tues
day, in London, and fined $3.50 for con-
| tempt OF court.
An earthquake recently struck Zantc,
the most important of the Ionian ISL
ands, and caused great destruction and
loss of life.
The Worlds Fair buildings have al
ready cost $16, 705, S25, twice the sum ex-
pended for the Paris Exposition, and
more must yet be paid out
Among the new diseases arc listed
typewriters' backache, Telephone ear
ache, gum -ckewers' lockjaw, and ciga-
rette smokers insanity.
o. i. Braiscr, farmer who lives at
the foot of the Cumberland Ridge, near
Gallatin, Tenn, has a thirteen year-old
daughter who weighs $40 pounds.
! The pews at the Catholic church were
sold as usual on Easter Sunday but did
not bring as much as they did last year,
| Total amount of sale was S190O.-Abbe-
vile Meridional
New Iberia Enterprise For the past
two weeks, burglars have been opera
| ting in this place. They have entered
| industry has not been very liberal.
| Congress is to be asked to make the
enlisted force of the navy $4,000 men,
instead Of 1000, as at present. This in
crease is necessary to man the ships that
will be completed within the next two
years.
A cyclone which visited the lower por-
ton of the State on the 14th did Consid-
cradle damage in the parishes of La
fourche and TerIebonne. Several per-
sons were killed aud much property was
destroyed.
The centennial of the establishment
of the Roman Catholic see at New Or
leans will be celebrated Or the 25th with
imposing ceremonies. OratiOns will be
delivered by Senator White in English
and by Lieut.. Gov. Parlange in French.
Plaquemine Protector: One third of
the public schools Ut tlis parish are for
colOred children. And yet the colored
ptOplS CUIlliUutS uult tuC-sIAttculu vi
the revenues of the parish, by means of
taxation.
The public school term in Ayoyelles
parish will last bnt two and half
months this year, owing to the fact that
the police jury was unable to give the
schools any aid aud to the light collec-
ton of poll taxes.
At the present price of pork the farm
er should keep an eye Oh the hog crop.
a good size bunch of hogs at the present
prices would root mortgage out of the
ground quicker than any other CROP
Lake Charles American.
The Diamond Plate Glass Works of
kokoma, Ind, finished last week the
largest plate ever cast in tho United
States. It is 150x21G inches, or 124 feet
wide by Is feet in length It is the
largest plate ever cast and ground and
polished in America.
Three Zulus arrived ut the Worlds
Fair grounds at Chicago last Thursday.
They have been brought to this country
to act as guards for the great display Of
diamonds aud diamondiferOus earth
from South Africa Each of The trio is
nearly seven feet tall.
The 1berville South wants the Office
of Justice OF the Peace abolished. We
think its jurisdiction should be increas-
ed, and that more care should be taken
in selecting the candidates. Let the |
Circuit Judges 90 and keep the Justices !
of the Peace.-Morgan City Review.
People 10 the north who usually think |
the negro is sadly neglected in the south |
are officially informed that in this par |
ish of St. Mary last month S3O95 was |
paid for col0red public schools, and 1850 !
for the white. This don't look like the
negro has no chance to educate himself, |
Morgan City Review.
The man who paints bis yard fence,
cleans up his premises, whitewashes bis
barn and keeps the weeds from growing
on the sidewalk in front of his gate, is a
greater benetactor to q town, than the
man who spends his time on the street
corners prating about a slurian city and
the dead condition of bis adopted home.
The finance committee of the police
Jury OF Ayoyelles parish recently re-
ported that Clifton Cannon, sheriff and
Ok officio tax collector, had failed to pay
over to the parish treasurer various
collected, and the committee
that the district attorney take
steps to remove Mr.. Cannon from office.
The report was adopted.
If the cabinet turns out to be as big
Intellectually as physically it will salts
y tue country. Mr.. Bissell is six feet
hree inches, Hoke Smith is an inch
shorter, Mr.. Carlisle is about six feet,
md MIR. Gresham six feet two inches.
Lamont is the little man of the crowd,
>ut he's a hustler when it comes to hard
work.
A Wisconsin manufactory claims tn
lave solved the problem of harvesting
cotton, and will put ON the market next
winter complete set of machinery for
hat purpose. Another firm announces
hat soon all our fields will be plowed J.,
" electrical power. What then will
become OF :" the Niger aud the mule p
The world moves.
10 those OF our readers who contem- {
,iate taking trip to Chicago, during
he Exposition, it will be interesting to {
Inow that the distance between New
orleans aud Chicago is nine hundred
md fourteen miles, and that the dis.
ance can be travelled over in twenty |
llne hours and forty minutes from Chi /
;ago to New Orleans. |
Natchitoci,es Democratic Review
The 9th of May, the date fixed for the
Meeting Of the Press Association ia not ..
'ery far off, but 10 the meantime no
Efforts will be- spared to put every thing :
n readiness to give our guests q roval =.
eception. The citizens of NatchitocIes ..
AVE responded literally to the calls
made upOn them for this purpose, and