The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-26
General Notes.

"The better the country roads. better
the degree of civilization"
Within the past two months tel sets
of twiS have been born in as many
families in tho town of New Hope.
PENNSYLVANIA.
It is now stated that Judge Lawra-
son, of West Feliciana, will be a candl-
date for Congress in the Sixth Con
gressional district.
Last week IA sixteen-year-old boy OF
St. Louis threw a small wire over a
trolley wire and was instantly killed by
the electrical current.
The family of August Steffon, at
Cleveland, O., has been poisoned by
trichinae. One child died on Thursday
and the rest are not expected to live.
The Populists of the Eighteenth Con-
gr~essional District of Ohio will nomi-
nate General" T. S. Coxey for Con
gress and inaugurate q red-hot cam
paign.
The Excelsior Brass Band of St. Mar
tinville was awarded the gold medal i'll
the musical contest between the several
brass bands at Lafayette, Sunday the
18th inst.
The death of a man at Cuero, Texas.
last week Of hydrophobia, the result OF
a dog bite two years ago shows how
subtle and lasting is the incubation OF
this terrible af1iction.
Orders for guns from all parts Of Eu-
rope continue to overwhelm the hrupp
gun works at Essen, the immense re-
sources Of which are severely taxed to
fiji than within a required time,
A despatch from Paris says that the
police found two bombs IN the streets
on May 10, and also discovered and seiz-
ed a large quantity OF dynamite III a
house at PantiD, a suburb OF the city.
A life saver Of New York city says
that his observations. which have ex-
tended over a period Of twenty years,
utterly disprove the superstition that a
drowning person rises to the surface
three times.
The Supreme Court of South Carolina
decided, last week, in a couple of cases
brought to test the question, that pro-
hibition is in force in that state owing
to the notification of the law authorlz-
ing State dispensaries.
Col. Robt. E. Rivers has purchased
the Pickwick Club property, at the cor
ner Of Canal and Corondelet streets,
New Orleans, for $142, 900, on which he
will build a palatial hotel, with all the
modern improvements.
A poll of the delegates in attendance
at the Southern Methodist Conference
at Memphis, Tenn, showed two-thirds
, of the members to be opposed to the
!, proposed plan of reuniting the North,
+ ern and Southern Methodist churches.
! A despatch dated May 9, states thai
the police of st. Petersburg have recent,
, ~ made a wholesale arrest of Nihilists
, 100 of them having been arrested in ont
! batch. Some of the captured Nihilists
confessed that they had accomplices in
. London and Paris.
t The Westinghouse Electric Company
> one of the two great concerns of til.
. kind in the country made a net prof
| on it's business during its past fisca
business is in dynamos, electric railway
: and electric lighting.
The monument erected in Fredericks
burg, Va, by the Mary Washington
Association in memory of the mother o
the first President, was dedicated witt
fitting ceremonies last week. Presiden
Olottlauu wax pItScuG duO mduS
speech and also attended the banque
= which followed.
Q Baron Sonino, Italian Minister of Fl
s nance, has signed a convention with al
" English syndicate by which tn
syndicate agrees to pay the govern
ment 100000 lire annually in ex
e change for the alcohol monopoly. TIL
government has been enabled thus t
t dispense with the project to reduce tn
e interest on the rente.
!, The Executive Committee of the Ma
. tional Liberal Federation has issued
: call for a conference to be held at Leeds
= on June 30, for the purpose of formu
lating a plan of campaign against til
House Of Lords. The circular calm
the conference declares that the uppe
House of Parliament is a standing men
ace to the liberties of the people, and
is necessary to practically determin
how that obstacle can be surmonnte
= or removed.