The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-27

washington as a Presidential POSSIBLE
ity in 1896.
So numerous have been the applica-
tons for work at the four Fall River
lMass.) mills that are running that
hundreds are turned away daily.
A boy says "Courtship is an irregular,
active transitive verb, Indicative mood,
present tense, third person. singular
number. and agrees with all the girls"
An ingenious inventor claims to have
devised a lamp wick which. being made
entirely of clay will give some twenty
i've per cent more light than the cotton
article.
There was a State election in Florida
on Tuesday of last week. The Demo-
Gratis, as usual, carried the day, the
Populists casting a very light vote for
their ticket.
Four inches of snow fell in the dis
trict of Salisbury, Austria, Oct. 3, and at
Ischl snow fell for eight hours without
cessation. The people are greatly in
fear of avalanches.
The new mills at the American tin
plate factory at Elwood, Ind, we're
started last week, and the president of
the company informed the men that no
reduction in wages will be made.
The Second District Democratic con-
ventlon adopted a resolution calling for
the removal from Office of all appoint
ees who are not democrats in principle,
and replace them by true and tried men
of the party faith.
The $1,795.9 $3.50 in Columbian ouve.
mir coins, which were not disposed of
during the Worlds Fair, are to be is
sued by the United States Treasury on
demand at their face value in exchange
for gold.
Judge McComas, of Washington, D.
C., has denied the application of the
Miles Sugar Company, of Louisiana, for
q mandamus to compel Secretary Carl
is!e to pay the sugar bounty this year.
They must apply to Congress.
Some people are always too prone to
nnd fau't with a newspaper and it's opin-
ions. and it generally comes from a
mind that scarcely knows what O news
paper is, and invariably never a sub
scriher.-Abbeville Meridional.
From July last, when the coinage of
standard silver dollars was resumed.
up to Oct. l.. $1,e43,651 of such coins
have been minted. and the nominal
seIgniorage, amounting to 1896, 900, has
Deer paid into the Treasury's cash.
La Patrie, referring to the report that
Emperor William intends to visit Paris
during the Exposition Of 1900, saws the
German emperor will not be allowed
to enter Paris until Metz and .:S%trasbure
shall have been returned to France.
The Ohio Steel Co. is building a mill
at youngstown at a cost of ST., 500, 900.
which, it is said, will prove q formid-
able rival to the steel rail trust. It is
expected to begin operations in Janu-
airy, and will have a capacity of 1000
tons OF steel rails and billets a day.
The estate of the late DR.. Henry T.
Bigelow, one of the foremost physicians
OF Massachusetts, is being sued for $780,
O0O 6y q young lady, who claims that
the doctor promised to marry her and
would have fulfilled the contract had
he lived.
A dispatch from Yankton, South Da-
lkota, says that General Hugh j. Camp
bell, who was one of the organizers of
the Peoples Party in that State five
years ago., has gone back to the Re-
uOiAC0u0s LILO ukuE0u prominently In
as a Republican in recon
struction times.
A good deal of indignation has been
stirred up in the South by the action of
the Postofice Department in changing
name of the postofice at Appomat-
.ox Court House, Va, to Surrender.
The change was made at the sugges-
lion of the local postmaster.
A dispatch from Paris SAYS that
France, England, Russia and Germany
have agreed to form a quadruple alli-
to protect foreigners in China and
TO put an end to the war between that
country and Japan.
Greedy johnson, OF Boston, met his
Heath while attempting to rescue a wo-
nan who had got caught in a folding
BED. he released her with difficulty,
but in doing SO fell into the bed himself,
was smothered to death.
A Rome correspondent has had an in
with Cardinal Calm BERT con-
the election of the next pope.
The Cardinal said he thought the Con-
would choose cardinal Amilcare
Malagola, Archbishop of Fermo, who
belongs to a rich and noble family, and
las the liberal ideas which distinguish
I'd the present pope.
HERE IS MORE INJURY DONE
THAN PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF