The Opelousas courier., 1894-08-11
General Notes.

Eugene Hankey, a trapeze performer
20. twenty-five feet at Massillon. o.
as' week and was fatally injured.
On July 10 the cruiser Columbia was
Ordered to sail at once to Bluef;elds
Nlcaragua, to protect American in.
terests there. I"
Cn tuesday of last week $50 clerks in
me RECORD and Pension Offices of the
war department received notice NJ
their discharge. :"
New corn is being sold on our streets
a. AZ cents per bbl. Fodder is plentiful
at 70 cents per hundred bnndies =.
Bunkie Blade.
IL takes eight times as much coal to
arlve the new cruiser Minneapolis
t~Wenty-three knots an hour as il does
to drive her eleven knots.
The news of the war in Asia has cans.
ca an advance in theSDrice Of rice. which
10 a staple article of 6nsumption amnnn
the chinese and Japanese.
On Tuesday morning Of last weak
goo sticks Of dynamite exploded at tha
loot OF the shaft of the Stockton Nina
near Hazleton, Pa, blowing eight man
to pieces. MO"
Adjutant General Tarsney, of Col.
oLado; mas refused to testify before A
9rand Jury IN regard to the recent tarr-
lnk ahH Ieatnering he received at Col
orado Springs.
" July 20 the delegates to the Popu-
list State Convention Of Arkansas met
az Little Rock. whittier they went on
foot ana by carriage, and nominated a
full State ticket.
4 tourteen-year-old lad of Wichita.
han., made what he thought was a hni.
iet-prOof coat, and in testing his inven.
lion last week. he was shot and killed
oy a younger brother.
kamie fibre is tough and wears 40
we'll that in China, where it ia used for
making clothing, it is said that children
frequently wear the clothes which their
grandparents wore when children,
Over 300 of the 600 or ZOO islands in
the st. Lawrence River. between a..
nanoque and Brockvilie. which tha
Canadian government RECENTLY ordered
to De sold, have been disposed of for
about $500
Friday. July 81, was the fifth day Of
the not winds in Nebraska, and the
temperature IN The State averaged ITO
degrees. The corr crop on three.
fourths Of the best land in the State i
said to be ruined.
The term of Capt. E. S. Benton "a
military instructor at the university at
patton Rouge has expired. LIEUT.. Cor
don. u. y. A.. will be bis successor.
Lieut.. Gordon was formerly of ST.
Landry parish.
The.gun and pistol are again at work.
Tragedies at Baton Rouge, Springfield
D townsville, La, give evidence of
this. Let the law take the offenders in
hand ; no to forgive but ia punish
them.-N. 0. City Item.
Last week a y"nng lady of Ell paso.
ILL.,. while curling ilel i,ait with \ cnrl-
ing iron, accidently sci fire 10 the l,ons,,.
and caused ii couf1agration which des-
tfOyed a number of stores and business
buildings. Loss. $175.0OO
New Orleans seems to be anno,ra 4,
death with little bogus lotteries. What
las becnme of the powerful arm of our
great and only anti lottery Stale gov
einHntnt that 1t does not crush ont these
petty frauds Baton Rouge Capital
Item
O''N'n - Sty tuht tut LEXIS SfNU
VIII average ten days earlier than last
sea>nD aud that the Texas commercial
crap, which includes the Indian Terri
tory cntl"n viii he $500, 900 hrlies. Tn
~ date Houston ina received 100 bales
az new f0ttOn.
The Echo says the Sulphur Mines
u shout twelve miles west Of Like
Charles, was sold on 21st July far
$173.32 1874 to Mr.. VIM. Mauicr, the
1t ia now said that the
Standard Oil Company is going to
develop the mints.
The German government has finally
not TO accept Herr Doves so-
called bullet proof cnirass for use in
the army. At a recent trial of it's
efficiency at Spandan the cuirass was
by bullets from a regulation
rife at 600 meters.
There is said to he insanity in the
family Ut CesaIin, the murderer of
President Carnot. The best cure for
disease, when it deveiopes into the
form found in Cesario, is the guillotine.
ia quick, sure and probably PAINLESS.
What more could be desired IN. O.
City Item.
The advance guard of The Uuifed
Industrial Army" claiming ta be
900 strong, have issued an appeal from
Rosslyn," Alexandria, Va, for
money and provisions. The Virginia
say they intend to drive the
[ndustrials out of the State.
The first election in Virginia under
,he Australian ballot law, passed At the
aat session of the Legislature. took
place on Friday in the town Of Har-
and the returns show that the
swept the town for the first
line in many years 10 a local election.
The press throughout the State is
unanimous ID favor of q genuine
'eform ballot law, and there is "a moral
certainty that the next Governor of
will have no difficulty 10
l%scertaining the sentiments Of the peo-
Die on that particular subject.-Baton
Rouge Capital Item.
A Lehigh Valley freight train was
'unning down a heavy grade near
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, last week, when-the
Engineer noticed that twelve feet Of the
Dad bed, about q hundred feet ahead
It the train, had dropped into an old
nine. As the train could not be stop
,ed he put on a full head of steam and
he entire train passed over the yawn-
ng hole in safety.