St. Landry democrat., 1894-01-20
General Notes.
The people want to get the news,

The DEMOCRAT Iui!y meets their views
They say it can't be beat.
Cholera is raging in St. Petersburg.
The river Seine is covered with thick
! ice.
Tie new year opened with every iron
| and steel mill in Pittsburg in operation.
| France will begin this year The con
| stiucti0n of thirty-tWo war ships OF all
! classes.
| A movement is on loot to establish a
| fruit and vegetable canning factory at
Baton Pou2r.
! The disposition Oh the part OF Russia
| and the Vatican to lc establish mutual
| understanding is apparently tirmer than
| ever.
The Greenwood Cotton Company, of
| Hln&tpd, Conn, employing 700 hands,
| has closed It's UoghS foi an indefinite
| time.
| Their. axe at present in this country
| 12J railroad companies, covering over
! ~ 600 miles Of road, in the hands OF re-
| Celytrs.
The Eastwood chemical and wire
cloth works at Beiieyll!e, \. j., lave re-
| sunIed operations, aud are now employ
| ing 300 hands.
Gov. Mitchell, Of Florida, is still de-
| termiucd to stop the Corbctt- Mitchell
| fight and it hcgus to look very much as
| if he viii succeed.
GOV. Flower has ordered all the en-
ploycts Of the State of New York to uu
dergo Civil Service examinations, and
all persons not able to pass must vacate
their pnsitious.
A despatch from Vienna says that
Archduke Salvador has perfected an
automatic mltraileuso that will fire
$50 to 4S0 shots a minute. SmOkeltss
powder can he used in all weathers.
The situation ia Italy is hourly be-
coming worse. A desperate fight be
tween 5000 rioters and the troops &C.
CURED at Marine, near Palermo, Jan. s.,
in which thirty of the rioters were
killed.
Pat of the carpet mills Of Alexander
Smith q Sons, at YOnke.s, n. Y, wee
put in operation last week, and the rest
of the works are expected to resume
soon. Nearly 1000 hands arc employed
IN the mills,
An Austrian has invented powerful
shears for cutting torpedo nets on war
ships. The shears are attached to the
head Of tie torpedo, and they cash the
net without reducing the speed Of the
torpedo or exploding il.
Gov. Lewclling appointed Mis-. Lease
to office, and he it was who unseated
her. The time-honorcd toast is recall
ed: The women, God bless em We
cant get along without 'em, and we
cant get along with 'em."-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
The tariff schedule in Mr.. ClevcIantl's
bill, as reported from his committee Oh
ways and means by Mr.. Wilson, is Meth
er tariff for revenue nor tariff for
protection; it is a tariff for a deficit 1t
might be called IL tariff for revenue, mi
nus $4,000, 000.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
Dem.
1t is said that "the Democratic party
is like a cOon--it fights best on its back
with the dog on tnp.' Ii there is not
some concert Of action looking to a
prompt redemption Of platform pledges,
we are afraid that the party will assume
its best fighting position. Orleans
Free Press.
The sugar cane planter will be in a
state Of suspense and anxiety until Con-
gress decides what is to be done with
sugar. If the bounty is taken off and
duty OF less than cent per pound put
on, it will be a hard blow 20 the sugar
interest of Louisiana. - Alexandria
Town Talk.
W. b. Moore and his son, Alfred B.
Moore, pension attorneys, and three of
their clerks were arrested in Buffalo on
Saturday charged with pension frauds
1t is claimed that out of 6,000 claims
which Moore has pnt through since 1889,
at least 1900 were fraudulent, and that
they have mu'cted the Government of
probably 100000.
Crematores have been in existence in !
this country since 1881. and, according
to the reports given. the total number
of cremations is 2017. Last year there |
were 503, while the total number of
deaths exceeded 100000. These figr.ts
seem to indicate that cremation is not |
making much progress The fact is |
that the clergy, almost as a uuit, are !
against it.
iss7''ntyf'esu men, when lyDched, are worth !
Just So each in Kansas, according to the
verdict Of a jury at Salina. Henry
Adams, cnlOred, sued the city for $4,000 .
damages for the loss of his son. who was
hanged by mob last April. The mat
ter came before court and jury last
week and the iurV decided that M az