St. Landry democrat., 1894-01-27
General Notes.


The people want to get the news,
And want it crisp and neat;
TIE DEMOCRAT fully meets their views
They say it can't be beat.
The deaths from cholera in Constan-
tinople average five per day.
Three departments Of the Wheeling
Iron and Steel Co., w. Va, resumed
last week, employing 500 men.
Threats are made by Anarchists to
blow up the prison of La ROquette,
where Valiant is confined.
Several different departments of the
Norton Iron Works at Ashland, Ky,
resumed work last week, giving en-
ployment TO 600 men.
The Louisiana Lottery Company Off
Gals had scarcely landed in Honduras
before another lottery scheme sprung
up in the Crescent City.
The Guardian Journal joins in say
ing: eff you arc farmer do not put
your dependence on cotton this year.
Make your meat and bread at home.'
Always say good word for your ma
tive or acquired resident town ii united
expression Hs good opinion viii work
iLiiAhN'io) oSH'~ANS W ohJ
Since South Carolina went into the
saloon business, drunkenness in that
State is said to have decreased one-llalf
and the treasury is reaping a profit of
$4,000 a month.
Statistics show that on the first week
in December there were LOG, O22 paupers
in London. The number at the same
period in 1892 was 97,232, and in the
year 1891 it was 92,G31.
The 5000 employees of the Riverside
Steel and Iron Co., at Wheeling, W.
Va, concluded to accept the reductions
| in the wage scale, and work has been
resumed in all departments on full time.
Tho anathema annually pronounced
against tue French since the Invasion OF
| 1919, at the Christmas mass, Dec. %, in
the St. Petersburg churches, was omit
ted this year Oh account of the Franco
Russian agreement.
Senator Hoar is now posing in the Sen
| ate as a champion of civil service re-
form. The love Of Republican politi-
| clan for the civil service law during the
| existence of Democratic administra-
ton is truly toucbiug.-N.O. Free Press.
Shreveport Times: 1t would seem
from the inception that bitter and
prolonged debate will precede the final
struggle over the Wilson bill. The
democrats are exhibiting lack of CO.
hesiyeness that does not augur success
in the adoption OF this measure.
Mining operations have been resumed
in the large iron mines at Round Noun
tain, Ala, and the furnace, which has
been idle for two years, is being pre-
pared to blow in. The Birmingham
(Ala.,) Rolling Mill, the largest in the
South, employing 1000 men, will also
commence work at once.
Under the anti-lottery law passed q
year ago all the courts in Kentucky
have decided against the lottery men.
The latter, however, in defiance of the
law, have continued to carry on their
business, pending an appeal to the
United States Supreme Court.
A farmer of Greene County, North
Carolina, recently sent his signature
and address to a man in neighbOring
county, who wrote asking for his full
name and address. lie has since been
called upon to pay note for $50 at
thirty days. lie put his name and ad-
dress on a blank sheet of paper and the
other man did the rest.
There are %, $50 negro schools 10 the
South, where 2,250,000 negroes have
learned to read and most of them to
write. In these schools there are $685.
900 pupils and 10000 negro tdachers.
There are $50 schools for advanced edu-
cation and seven colleges administered
over by negro presidents and faculties.
Thomy Lafon, wealthy colored man
who recently died in New Orleans, be-
Gueathed to various charitable institu-
tons in that city $4,000. lie was the
founder OF the Asylum of the Holy Fam
lily, a home for aged colored people. He
gave to this institution $4,000 by his
last will.
Ex-Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback, the lemon
colored gent who was ex-Gov. War
moths lieutenant in the good old days
of carpet baggers, has moved to Wash
ingtOn and erected him an elegant homo
on Colum bia Heights. near the Chinese
embassy. 1t is said to be the finest
house in that neighborhood.
From different reports we see occa-
sonaiiy in some of the New Orleans pa
pers, there seems to be going on break
ing up of old political alliances and the
formation of new ones. The latest is
that Gov. Foster and Boss Fitzpatrick
are chums and are likely to fight under
the same banner in the next State cam
paign.-Farmerville Gazette.