St. Landry democrat., 1893-05-27
General Notes.

mas Tue prospect OIL TWO more OdHhs.
An $4,000 High School building is a
contemplated improvement in Franklin.
A new ruling Of the Treasury Depart
mcDt excludes idiots from cutry tn this
country.
John ID. Rockefeller has made dona'
ton of $4,000 to the University OF
Chicago.
The Circulating Library of Bayou
Sara has received its first installmcnt OF
books, 1909 iU number.
The President appointed Frank n.
Jones, of Illinois, to be First Assistant
Postmaster General.
Reports from thirty OF the sixty-three
Internal Revenue districts show that
3,043 Chinese have registered.
A Michigan girl has recovered $500
damages from a steamboat company for
naming boat after her without obtain
ing her permission.
The question OF the constitutiODality
of the Geary law has been settled, but
whether the Chinese must go or not is
still Il very doubtful question.
a quarantine against all vessels from
French ports on account Of the preva-
lence of cholera in France.
The steamships Victoria and Danube
carried away from Pacific Coast ports
seven hundred Chinese whom they were
not permitted to land.
A new counterfeit S. United States
silver certificate has been discovered.
The portrait of General Grant has a
atched look and some OF the lettering
is irregular.
Warren G.. Buttelwo,th, of Spring.
field, Mass, committed suicide with a
rifle. The bullet, after passing through
his head, entered that of his daughter,
killing her also.
The Fair Is TO have II very life-like
Jersey cow made of India rubber Fresh
milk will be pumped iuto her and milk
ed out by the glassful at the price OF
tive cents glass.
The Earl OF Aberdeen has been ap-
pointed Governor General of Canada in
place OF the Earl Of Derby, formerly
Lord Stanley of Preston, who was ap-
pointed governor in 1888,
Marshal MacMahon, cx- president of
France, is now, at the age of Sc, suffer-
ing from tue first serious illness of a
lifetime. He has been Frustrated by a
severe attack Of the Influenza.
Washington Argus: After il thor
ough test of Mr.. Julien Claude's new
machinery lately added to his brick fac
tory, it proves perfectly satisfactory.
The capacity is $4,000 per day.
A German farmer, having sold Ills
farm in California, was ON his way to
bis old home in Europe and stopped in
Chicago to see tue Fair. While there
bis pocket was picked. His loss was S.,
100; all lie bad.
ln spite of tho fact that there are a
million pensioners already Oh the rolls,
new pensions are still being granted at
the rate of from 100 to $40 a day. An
income tax is inevitable.-St Louis Re-
public.
Shreveport Caucasian: The Lntelrifi-
ed Democracy of Louisiana will insist
on a new system ut elections. The poll
ticians and place hunters, the quacks
and time-servers, must line up" ac-
1t is expected that the personnel of the
amendment commission
will he announced shortly. Ex-senator
Phipps of Claiborne, Col. Lott Of West
Carroll, and Maj. Seip of Rapides are
spoken of as probable members of the
commission from North Louisiana.
The st. Louis Republic declares that
President Cleveland has decided upona
policy for the administration aud will
lrge the repeal of the Sherman bullion |
Ict, the passage Of law fixing tax on ,
private Incomes and the repeal of tie 10 |
,er cent tax on State banks.
Mrs. II. K. Field left Oil Monday for !
stay of three months in Chicago. The |
will rejoice to be able to |
GO all the wonders Of the great fair
trough the keenly appreciatiVe eyes of |
he gifted Catbarine Cole.-Louisiana |
seview, May "a.
Hundreds of men aud boys climb over
be fence and gain access to the EXPOSE
ion grounds in defiance of the Column
ian guards, aud the latter are even
ccused OF aiding their friends to eff
ect an entrance 10 this cheap way. The
uthorities intend to protect tile fence
18th barbed wire.
Since 1866 we have paid over fifteen
undred million dollars for pensions
nd it seems that the payments have
My begun. Thus far the burden has
cen borne by the labor of the country.
ereafter it must be borne by abnormal
lcomes until the last dollar of the pen
on debt is paid We must have an in
)me tax.-St. Louis Republic.
Recent experiments by an expert are
lid to show that with different decora-
ons room would DO equally lighted
= the following candle power: Black
9th, 100; dark brown paper, 81; blue
aper, r.; clean yellow paint, 60; car :
idge paper, 20; whitewash. Is. Only
bout one sixth as much illumination is
ecessary for the wllitewashed room as
n the same room papcred in dark ,
OVID.
The Jewish inhabitants of Caucasia {
I've been ordered to remove from their
esent homes to within the southwest
n pale. About One-third of the jew
b population OF Libau, the Baltic sea-
'rt, will be expelled within tho coming /
months. They form an influential
'rtion of the commercial community. {
w. r. Drewry, IL pension attorney
IS been charged with fraud in the pen
III cases be has handled. OF 1866 cases
anted through him 9S per ceut. are
id to have been fraudulent. And, as
arly all these cases carried arrears, f
Q loss to the Government will proba- q
Y aggregate 100000. y
The sale on May 10, in Paris, of paint
Is from the studio of the late Jean [
ouis Meissonier, the famous painter, {
Is largely Misunderstanding $173,275. I