The Opelousas courier., 1894-03-17
General Notes,

LOUIS kossutli, the Hungarian patri.
OF IS seriously i'll at Turin, Italy.
DR.: Talmage told his congregation on
sunday that he had rceonNdered his
determination to resign. n
Thirteen Anarchists w.,e Arrcsted in
Paris, March 4. Explosives were found
IN the lodgings of four of them.
Hon: E. D. White, late T.. s. Senator
from Louisiana, waa sworn in as as
s0clate justice of the Supreme Court
last Monday.
James Montgomery Bailey, "the
Danbury News man." a well known
humorist and author, died in Danbury,
Conn.,, on Sunday.
A Democratic caucus of the Virginia
Legislature has adopted a bill to en-
graft the Australian ballot system upon
the existing laws.
The hard times have reached even to
the Vatican, and the expenses of the
papal government exceed its receipts
100000 lire per month.
Ex-President Harrison, on his way to
California, addressed crowds last week
at the railway stations at Kansas City,
Topeka, Emporia and other points.
A citizen of Passaic, N. j., took seven
grains OF morphine on Saturday by mis-
take. His life was saved by the new
antidote, p~ermanganate of potash.
The New York World says that it is a
remarkable fact that the majority of
American heiresses who go abroad for
titles come home for sympathy and re-
lief.
During the past three months eigh-
teen OF the Gloucester, Mass, fishing
fleet have been lost, together with six
ty-one men, and property valued at
1t is said that the thin copper plates
used in the construction of the Bar
tholdi Statue of Liberty are being bad
ly corroded by the action of the moist
salt air.
Reports received by the Chattanooga
Tradesman show that during the past
two weeks forty-two mills and furnaces
in the South were set in operation
again.
1t is reported from Cumberland, Md,
that every mine in Georges Creek re-
gion will resume operations within a
week. This will give employment to
1000 men.
Michael S. Fay, a Republican election
inspector in New York, was found
guilty last week of making a false can
vass of the votes cast and was sent to
prison for five years.
The miners in the Ohio Sub-district
No. 6, oyer 1000 in number, agreed on
Saturday to return to work on Monday,
pending a settlement of the wage ques-
ton by arbitration.
The Hecla mill of the Calumet Wool
put in operation last week. after a shut
down of six months. Two hundred
operatives are employed.
1t is said that ten Democratic Sen
atOrs have an agreement to oppose the
Wilson Tariff bill AS long as any n of
the ten is dissatisfied with any of the
provisions of the bill.
The daughters of twelve members of
Congress and the wives of full twenty
members draw pay from the United
States as the private secretaries of their
fathers and husbands, as the case may
be.
Gen. John McGrattl, president, has
called Il meeting of the Louisiana Press
association to take place at Crowley OF
May Z, 8 and 9. Extensive preparations
are being made there for welcoming the
guests and a fine meeting is anticipated.
Russell Sage nnounce that the Man
haitian Elevated Railroad Company, of
New York City, intends to build tracks
on a second story, above the existing
elevated structure, on which it will run
express trains.
A dispatch from Berliu says that En-
peror William is giving a great deal of
attention TO the subject of bimetallism,
and is bringing all his influence to bear
to prevent a further decline in the
price of silver.
The Governor has Used a proclama-
ton for an election of a congressman
in the Fourth district in place Of Mr..
Blanchard, who was sworn in as U. 5.
Senator CD the 18th. The election Will
take place April "a.
Mrs. Lease says she has been renewed
by her visit to the east. We thought she
was one Of the perpetual leases that
never run out. The governor of Kan
sas tried to run her out, but he couldn't.
IN. o. Free Press,
The Treasury statement issued on
Thursday OF last week showed, for the
first eight months Of the present fiscal
year, an excess of expenditures over
receipts of $40, 137, 1868. The chief loss
in revenue was in the receipts from Gus
toms.
The distribution of the Krags-Jor-
geDsen rifle to the army will commence
this month and two regiments will be
equipped with the new arm, monthly.
With the new rife will go a supply of
cartridges made with a smokeless pow
der and carrying steel-clad bullets.
The w. D. Boyce Co, Of Chicago, want
a good hustling boy or girl in every town
in the United States and Canada to sell