The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-07
General Notes.

The pope has given instructions to
the proper officials at the Vatican to
prepare for the holding of a consistory
about the end of April.
Only three of the nineteen lieutenant
generals in the Confederate army are
now living. All of the eight full gene
rails have passed away.
Fruit and grain have been greatly
damaged by the extremely cold wave
that extended all we the country east
of the Rocky Mountains last week.
Drunkenness is very rare in Rio de
Janciro, the cause lying in the fact that
the people drink coffee to the almost
entire exclusion Of alcoholic beverages.
James Gilday, a plumber, insulted
two women on Monday on Market
street, San Francisco, and their escort
hit him with his fist, killing him with
a single blow.
Wheeler's great carpet factory in
Philadelphia resumed last week OF full
time with a large force most of the
employees had been out of work since
last September.
A Massachusetts, town finds itself in a
novel situation. Its treasurer has re-
signed after serving for twelve years,
and has left in the treasury 100000
that he cannot account for.
st. Martinville Messenger, March "a:
The bayou has risen considerably this
week and is still rising. 1t is believed
that the cause of the rapid rise is due to
the C%ourtableau discharging its waters
into the Teche.
A feature of the Confederate reunion
at Birmingham, which will be held on
April 25-27, WILL be the laying of the
corner stone of a monument to be erect
ed by the people of that city to the Con-
federate dead.
The Citizens Relief Committee, Of
Boston, practically finished it's work
last week. During the past three
months 100000 have been expended
and 1000 unemployed people.have been
furnished with work through the COM
mittee.
Prince Bismark has recovered his
health so completely that DR.. Schwen-
niger has withdrawn all limitations up
walks daily in the Friedrichsruhe Park,
and hopes soon to resume his rides.
One furnace of the Diamond Glass
Works at kOkomo, Ind, was started on
Monday, and the entire concern will
soon be in operation with 800 bands.
The American Straw Board Co., at the
same place, will resume work on April
Is.
A four-story public school building in
Evanston, ILL.,, cal Chicago, was burn
ed last Wednesday. A number of pu-
pills jumped from the third and fourth
story windows and seven of them were
badly injured, but it is thought they
will ecOver.
The commercial treaty between Rus
STA and Germany was formally ratified
on the Goth, and went into effect at once.
The Novosti, of st. Petersburg, in
comparing the new tariff with the tariff
OF 1891, estimates that Germany will
gain $~1,3O0,0O0 annually, and Russia
$4,000 00.
st. Joseph Church, in New Orleans is
now exclusively for the colored Catho- |
lies of the city. Some of the leading |
colored people of the city objected to
this o and have appointed a COM
mittee to confer with Archbishop JAMS
sens on this subject.-St. Martinville
Messenger.
A bomb exploded in the Church of
Gallieu, near Grenoble, March 81,
wounding twenty persons, three of
whom may die. The bomb, filled with
powder and having a long fuse, had
been placed against a screen inside the
main entrance and burst as the congre-
cation was leaving after Lenten service
Orders have been issued by the Sec
rotary of the Navy directing that Rear
E. X. Benham be placed on the |
retired list OF April 10, and Rear-Ad-
miral John Irwin on April Is. They
will each have reached the age of sixty
years on the dates specified, at which
age, according to law, they must be re-
tired.
Ten thousand pounds Of dynamite
exploded in the works Of the Acme
Powder Co., at Blacks Run, fourteen
miles from Pittsburgh, Pa, on Friday.
The explosion killed three men. and
two women /; it also damaged buildings
and broke glass in all the villages in
the neighborhood.
John Most, the noted Anarchist, COM
plains, in the paper of which he is ed
ltOr, that he cannot collect the money
due ON subscriptions to his paper, and
concludes that America is not a good |
place for anarchy, the country being
too young and prosperous. He advises
his friends to return to Europe and
continue their labors there.
The Irish National League Of Great
Britain has issued a manifesto to the
Irish people containing Loo R~osebery's
Of his attitude toward
Home Rule. The manifesto declares
the explanation is insufficient, and
that Irish members Of Parliament, who
it are truckers, towards and
who ought to be driven out of
life. 1t calls upon Irishmen to
rally at the old call and make an i'm
mediate demand for an Irish Parliament
and executive possessing all the attri- {
butes of the English Parliament and ex- |
/
The New Orleans Picayune, a Demo- :
rat paper, %truthfully presents the sit
lati0n of the working people under
rule as follows: !
There are nearly 1000, 900 wOrkmen, =
many with families, out of work and =
iriven to live on charity and tempted to '
es0rt to crime. Philanthropy cries : ! :
tor Gods sake, do not add any more to !
his immense army of distress. But the '
nadmen who are pretending to be DEM =
'crats are deaf to these appeals. They =
ave declared their intention to turn y
ut 1000, 900 more of work people to the =
%lternative of starvation or crime. u
According to the statement Of Geo. .
led. Brumby, register Of the land Y
flee at New Orleans, there is an in d
reasing demand for State lands for e