St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1894-02-24

The people want to get the news
And want it crisp and heat;
TIE DEMOCRAT fully meets their views
They say it can't be beat.
Twenty persons are reported to have
Iroztn to death III Oklahoma.
Cholera has le-appearou in Constan-
tiuupl@. A dozen victims Of the disease
were bulied on February 10.
Mrs. Clarke Kruger, Of Michigan City,
lud., is dead, and her family Of seven
arg dying as the result Of eating pork
lDfo sted with trichipH.
Iyv0 tobacco factories at Henderson,
Ky, were burned Oh Saturday and 700,-
| $50 pounds of tobacco went up in smoke
plematnreIy; loss 100000.
The number Of immigrants landed in
| New York during January, 1894, was g.
| JTS The total immigration to the
| United States III 1898 was 439, 730 per
| sons.
On Thursday Of last week the pay
intnts on account of the new issue OF
United States bonds had raised the gold
III the Treasury above the 100000
reserve.
Mr.. W. {. Watson, for the last seven
teen years connected with tile S. P. road
and Of late its general passenger agent,
lac resigned his position, to take effect
| March 1st.
The Lake Charles Press says that
! there are no finer oysters found in the
| deep blue sea than those gathered at
| Caicasieu Pass, and carloads Of them
| may be bought for $3.50 a barrel.
That hog grease makes things lun
| smoothly on the farm " is not joke by
any means. Ask some good old farmer
who has tried raising his own "hOg and
hominy," and he will tell you what it
| means.
| All the cotton mills in Worcester
County, Mass, are now in operation.
| Most Of the wooden mills are also run
ming, and about seventy per cent of the
employees who were idle in September
now have work.
Emperor William celebrated, on Feb
0, the twentyfifth anniversary of his
| entrance into the army, in which, in &C
| cordance with the custom of his family,
he was made lieutenant on reaching
his tenth year.
The United States corvette kearsarge,
celebrated as the destroyer OF the Ala
bama, was wrecked on Roncador Reef
on February 2, while on the way from
Bluetields, Nicaragua. The officers and
crew were saved.
While the coffin containing the body
of IA Mrs. Harris was being lowered into
tie grave, at Double Springs, Ala, one
Of the straps which held the coffin broke,
liuovijIg George ellis into the grave
aud causing his death.
Farmers who plant fruit trees around
their homes, raise good garden every
year, save the corn that others give
away at 2jc per barrel, feed hogs with
it, and quit buying their meat, will GER
tainly succeed-Vermilion Star.
Reforms are in progress in the Treas
uTy Department which the Secretary es-
Inmates will save the Government from
$350,OO0 to 100000 per year. Many in
efficient and iDcapacitated employees
are to be dropped from the rolls.
Gen. MERCER, Minister Of War, has de-
cihed that canned goods for the army
shall in future be exclusively of French
manufacture. These goods have been
furnished by Americans. The change
will increase the cost 100 per cent.
After shut down of five months the
factory of the j. L. Case Threshing Ma
chine Company, at Racine, Wis, started
at work this week. Six hundred men
are employed. The Mitchell & Lewis
Wagon Factory, ut the same place, also
resumed, employing 500 men.
The Reiehstag, Feb. 7, discussed a
motion by derren Groeber and Rickert
t,, ,r,1npI tLo al ufof r,it1,
q view to making the ballot more secret.
The motion provides that an isolated
room shall be furnished, in which the
electors shall write their tickets and
place them in envelopes.
The United Press correspondent in
}sss * ess4 lubricant raa 'uhseftfaa lsEssF i
si.sA $4,000 aaeaAsa.aa..
nnp=SfpTe, ::'Iu UeCIareu that he always
would support Arcl bishop SatoIli to ac-
'entuate his American policy"
The pope's jubilee encyclical appear
I'd on the 18th inst. In the document
he pope thanks Christendom for the
made on the occasion of
lis jubilee. These manifestations, he
says, prove the vitality of the church
sers to his aged life and saws he prays
Tor the world the blessings of peace.
1t will pay every family having a
dot OF ground" says the Sugar Bowl,
to plant a few Irish potatoes as soon as
ne ground can be put in order. Fur
'ow ont the land and half fill the fur
'ows with fresh stable manure. Then
cover the manure with thin LAYER of
ilrt upon which drop the potatoes and ;
'over with dirt. Then mulch with
traw, or hay to the depth of six inches
md the work is done. Potatoes planted
n this way are a sare crop and will
'ield enormously" ,