The Opelousas courier., 1894-03-03
General Notes.

| ary 10, IN Barcelona.
There is great des!tution in STAR
| County, Texas, as result of the tong
drought.
The Reichstag has adopted ,esolu-
ton to Introduce in Germany the Aus
tTalian ballot.
1t is announced that l68, 1000 acres of
Indian land in South Dakota will be
| thrown open to settlers this Spring
Second Comptroller Mansur has de-
clded that General Sickles can draw pay
as a Congressman and also as retired
army officer.
There is likely to be IA hot parliament
tary fight grow out of the proposition to
| change the House rules in order to
break the present deadlock.
By an explosion of boiler on the
German ironclad Brandenburg in Kiel
Harbor, Feb. Is, forty of the crew were
killed and many injured.
The levee at Horn Landing, on the
Mississippi, fifty miles below Memphis,
broke last Wednesday and 5000 acres
of valuable land were inundated
Topeka grain men estimate that the
wheat crop of Kansas this year is like
ly to reach 100000, 900 bushels, and
exceed the phenomenal crop of 1892.
The Russian police claim to have
discovered widespread conspiracy in
Poland, the object of which is to So
cure the independence of that country.
Last week l. Rowland, of para-
gould, Ark, owing to business troubles,
took morphine in order to kill himself
and was saved 10y the new antidote,
permanganate of potash.
The proposition of New York to in
crease its population by swallowing
Brooklyn, leads the Dispatch to assert
that if she does Chicago will annex
Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin.
The Judge of the Criminal Court in
Chicago, has overruled the motion for
Il new trial in the Pendergrast case
and sentenced the assassin of Mayor
Harrison, to be hanged on the 23h of
March.
Kaiser Wilhelm went from Be,'in
to Friederichsrnhe. February 10, to re-
turn Prince Bsmark's visit The
meeting between he emperor and the
ex Chancellor WAS cordial and even
affectionate.
Thirteen miners We're entOmbed, last
week, by cav"iIi in the Gaylord
mine, at Plymo'',, Pa. Th.. mine h ID
been robbed of it's supporting pillars
and the men were at the time engaged
in putting in timber supports.
Statistics show that the South *
pends no less than $50, 600 annual
ly for the education of the negro This
fact is lost sight of by the Northern
press which writes with such little true
knowledge about tn" treatment accord
ed the negro by the whites of the
South.
The Phoenix Iron Company, at
Pheuixville, Pa, has received con
tract from the Southern Pacific Co. to
construct an iron bridge over the
Mississippi river at New Orleans. The
bridge will be over two miles long,
will take 50,O0O,OOO pounds of ir"n,
and will keep the works busy for two
years.
1t is stated that the newly organized
canal company which proposes con
structing canal from the Bayou
Queue de-Tortue, is pntung mp IL saw
mill at the lower end of the proposed
route. If the report be correct it
would indicate that the company might
Il ,ofI in th,r ci >1x-f II,
Crowley Signal.
The company located at Port Tampa,
Fla, under the Bame of the Hopdusas
Lottery Company, and protesting to
have its headquarters in Honduras, is
believed to be neither more nor less
than the Louisiana Lottery Company.
The delivery of registered letters aud
the payment of money orders to it has
been stopped
Mrs Gregory. of Rondout, N. Y,
was recently butted by vicious sheep
that,had been worried by dog that had
in turn been put out of doors by it's
master. She has sued Mrs. Lasbrr,
the owner of the sheep, for damages.
Now, Mrs. Lasher intends suing the
owner of the dog that worried the
sheep that butted Mrs. Gregory.
The laying of the track across The
Plaquemine Brul6e bridge, on the
Midland Branch, was completed last
Monday and the force is pushing the
work north as rapidly as possible.
With favorable weather it ought not
to be very long before the road is
completed as far north as graded -
Crowley Signal.
There are failures in Louisiana to
punish the guilty, just ia there are in
every State in the Union, but this fact
is oftener attributable to the Iaxity of
our criminal laws, the large number of
technical loopholes that have crept
into the statutes relating to criminal
procedure than to any corruption on
the part of our courts. Our statutes
need remodeling.-Democrat J"n' nal.
A meeting was held in Trafalgar
Square, Feb. l8. to dem"nstratr the
popular opposition to the House of
Lords. The meeting adopted ,rso
luton that in view Of its repeated oh
struction of legislation. the House nf
Lords was mischievous and useless and
ought to be abolished forthwith.
Three members of the House of Conn
mons took part in the meeting.
Gov. Fosters record for patronage
overtops that of all other Chief Ex-
ecutives of Louisiana Apart from a
vast number of major and minor ap-