St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1894-01-13

| THE DEMOcRAT fully meets 1Hcl Nl'"s
They -Hy it can't bc beat.
The Manchester Ship Canal WAS open
ed to gentlal traffic Jan. |,
Two large iron mills at pittShurz, Pa,
| rrSumcH work on Tuesday, employing
| 5000 men,
The tariff hII is uuder consideration
| in Congress and debate on it began on
Monday.
| Hon. WIN. Z. Gladstone is 81 years
old hNj Tie Grand O!d Man is the live
lies' man ia British politics to-day.
T'j% Penusyivania Steel Works, at
Steelton, Pa, shut down on Friday last
for an indefinite time.
Fonr iron and steel concerns ut Mar-
tin = Ferry, O., resumed work last week,
giving employment TO 1,j00 men
The repair shops of the New York
and New England Railroad at Norwood,
Mass, cln ?lnyiGg 600 men, were closed
on Thursday.
Several of the large knitting mills at
Amsterdam, New \ 0rk, partially rcsum-
ed work last week, employing from 600
to 800 hands.
Mardi-Gras will come this year on the
9th of February. Preparations are al
ready being made to entertain Rex and
his gay court in the Crescent City.
The Influenza epidemic is decreasing
in London. The death rate for the past
week shows Il considerable falling off,
lat deaths from the disease having oc-
cured.
Gen. Banks who is well known by the
title Of StonewaIl Jacks0u's commits
sary'' is now mentally Geranged. He ia a
very old man and his intellect has been
clouded for some time.
Gen. JOHN 3. Gordon is on lecturiug
tour in various parts of the country.
His subject is the Last Days of tie
Confederacy and he is winning fresh
laurels as an orator and lecturer.
The wages of workmen employed in
mills, factories and workshops in all
parts of the country are being gradually
reduced, and such reductions in nearly
every case accepted by the men.
The city government Of Buffalo, \.
l., began last week to furnish work for
the unemployed Of that city, and set L.
900 men to work breaking stones for the
roads at 10 cents an hour.
\ woman Of Oakland, Cal, who sued
for divorce, shot her husband during
the trial III lit Of jealous rage, then
nursed him back TO health, fell in iovo
with him again and is now living with
him.
The yield OF the vineyards in France
last year was remarkably fine. The
of 1 II
against 65O,00O,0O0 last year. The value
OF this yield is over $3.50, 100000 the
best since 1877.
The convicts of Kentucky are worked
npon the public roads under tie control
and direction of the State authorities.
kentucky Will now have good roads
ana the conV!cts will be better fed aud
Clothed than under the lessee system.
seems, says the Picayune, that the
tide OF foreign immigration is bcginn- |
ing to turn toward the South. 1t is re-
ported that a French syndicate has clos
ed % trade for 100000 acres of land in !
Mississippi Oh which to settle a large !
colony of French agricultulists.
The progressive citizens of Shreveport |
have organized an Improvement club. !
the object of which is to induce people |
and capital to come to that city and to
Caddo parish. Similar clubs have doue
a wonderful amount of good for the
cities OF Memphis, Atlanta and Little /
Rock.
The New Dairy School building, at
Cornell, N. Y, for which $4,000 was
appropriated, has been finished. The
sons and daughters of farmers will be
instructed in butter and cheese making
tree. In several counties where cheese
experts, employed by the State, gave
their services to the manufacturers, the
quality and consequently the price of
cheese has greatly improved.
Attorney General Cunningham has in
stltnted suit in the Civil District Court
OF Orleans against S. L. James, the peD-
ltentlary lessee, the object of the suit !
being to recover the sum of 81 G5p1s
balance on the lease Of tie tie Sci 5itentiarv
We have not beef informed fnllv SO r.
me merits * this suit, but we under.
sta me- Nat Mr. James claims some re-
cate for repairs and salaries, aud that
he has deducted this amount from the
annual lease.-B. r. Advocate. |,
The Crowley Signal is our authority
or the statement that the public schools
II this parish have been closed probably I
or the entire season, caused by the
yant Of sufficient funds to pay teachers.
he Signal very properly adds "that !
his condition of affairs is another re- !
hinder OF the necessity for material i'm {
'rovement in the educational laws of
and no law will meet the de- !
hands OF the people that does not as {
nre them OF free public schools for not
ess than eight months in the year, |
lcadia Advocate. :
A sugar mill but little used and in /
effect order can he had at q hnrna;,, On c