The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-24

Anton G. Rubinstein, the celebrated
Russian pianist and composer, dice
near ST. Petersburg ep NnFa nlTge(
81.
The official ballot used in Chicago OF
Nov. 6, was as large as half a newspa
per page, and had eight columns Of
amt on it..
The internal estimate il
that there are 10000, 900 packs of cards
in stock in this country. Uncle Sans
income from them will be $1,000 0O.
The deficiency in the postal revenues
for the last fiscal year amounted tC
S9,243,935. The expenditures we're $94,
234,414 and the receipts $75,Os0 ,449.
The transfer of the contract for print
ing stamps from outside parties to the
Bureau of Engraving will result in a
saving Of 81 LAS, 900 in four years.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has decided that there is no law in that
State declaring nuns from teaching in
the public schools in the garb Of their
order.
Nicholas H., before leaving Livadia,
signed an order suspending till further
notice the decree expelling 1875 Jewish
families from the Ek%aterinoslav gov
eminent.
1t was Mr.. Hills fight, and he fought
it to the finish like a brave man, whose
merits will be gratefully appreciated
and held in remembrance by the Demo-
cratic party.-Washington Post, Ind.
Not long ago a young man of Cleve-
land, o., and his best girl we're held up
with a shotgun late at night while
stealing grapes, and both were fined in
a police court next day.
The Attorney General of Tennessee
has begun action to forfeit the charters
of a number of large cotton seed oil
companies on the ground that they have
combined to depress the price of cotton
seed.
The telephone line between Vienna
and Berlin will be opened in a few
days. Emperor Franz Joseph will
speak the first message and Emperor
William will be at the other end OF the
line to answer it.
The latest news from the seat of war
reports that the Japanese continue to
advance and to gain victories. The
Chinese soldiers are reported to be in a
terrible plight, suffering from starva-
ton and exposure to the extremely cold
weather.
A despatch from Hartford, Conn, says
that the action OF the County Commits
of Hartford County, in reducing
the license fee from $500 to 5000 has
increased the number of saloons in
New Britain, a town of $4,000 inhabi-
to nearly 100.
The proprietor of a theatre in Spo-
kane, Wash, has just been obliged to
pay $500 damages because of the fall
OF an acrobat from a lofty trapeze. 1t
was not the acrobat. however, who got
money but the man in the audience
upon whom he fell.
The Cincinnati Price Current esti-
that already 10000 900 bushels of
have been fed to animals and
from 60,000,0 900 to 100000 bushels
are likely to be so fed from the present
crop. The weekly packing of hogs for
the first week in November amounted
to $4,000 against 205, 900 in the cores
week of last year.
According to the annual report of
Capt. Sampson, Chief Of Naval Ord
JNlISCS IL WV IllhCkiS0d al IL UiduGS
Bethlehem and Homestead are the
best equipped in the world. He says
that appropriations for additional
vessels should be made in or
der to prevent these magnificent plants,
which cost $40, 600, 900, from being idle.
The vanguard of what is said to be
extended emigration of Negroes
from the South to Liberia arrived in
New York city from Savannah on Sun
lay. An association known as the
International Migration Society is at
the head Of the movement and has 1850
people enrolled. Bishop Tur-
ger is engaged in extending the move
ment throughout the South.
Again news comes from Europe to
the effect that Armenian Christians
have been butchered by the Turks.
dispatch from Vienna says that q
Turkish marshal at the head of a large
military force massacred 1000 ArDen-
ans at Bassauden, and that thousands
IF others are fleeing across the Russian
in order to save their lives. 1t
Is strange, indeed, that the European
remain, inactive and permit the
wholesale slaug hter Of human beings
for no other reason than that they pro-
Tess the Christian religion. 1t certainly
seems time to order Turkey to halt,
md to give protection to the helpless
she is so mercilessly butcheIing.
N. o. States.
The post of military commander Of
The East, to which Gen. Nelson A.
Miles has succeeded Gen. Oliver o.
Howard, holds u royal sway. From
Governors Island Gen. Miles will keep
watch over the New England States,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia, North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida. Louisiana, Mississippi
pi, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Ohio and the District of Columbia.
He will thus, says the Philadelphia
Record, have a military rule over a
territory more than half a million
square miles in area, and yer more
than one-half the population of the
States.
The subject Of ramie to which we
have been calling the attention Of Jul
readers for some time, has brought to
us a number of serious enquiries, most
Of which were made in person by those
a more than ordinary interest in
the subject. The specimens of the
crude and prepared fibre we have on
has elected much favorable
comment in connection with the infor-
we are giving out on the subject
and not a few of the investigators ex-
press their intention to begin the Gull
ture of this hardy and wonderful plant,
in a small way next year, go as to
become acquainted with the chief
points connected with it's cultivation.
have received orders for a consi-
derable number of extra copies of The
Advertiser containing the article or
contributed by Capt. S. B. ALI