The Opelousas courier., 1894-12-08
ST. LANDRY, La, DECEMBER s, 1894.
General Notes.

All the -four mills of St. Louis have
been closed for an indefinite time, Ow-
Ing, the millers say, to over-production.
Ranavalona, the Queen of Madagas-
car, has all her dresses made III Paris.
She is thirty-tbree years old and very
black.
Queen Victoria has aged very much
during the AutumGerfeulrteseerI, IfiAc 1saly
a few steps, owing to%rrecurring rheunh-
tism in the knees.
The expectation of apples from this
country to England this year has been
705,S 19 barrels. Up to the same time in
1898, only about $4,000 barrels had been
shipped.
Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, South
Carolina, Georgia and Arkansas were
the only Southern States that remained
ocratic delegation back to Congress.
The Republican National Congress
siOnal Committee have received notice
that twenty-six Republicans intend to
contest the seats to which, on the face
OF the returns, Democrats were elected.
A close study of the late election re-
turns shows that the Populist party, al
though it lost important State officers,
nevertheless increased it's vote through
out the country nearly 100000 over the
vote it polled in 1892.
Liggett g. Meyers, tobacco manufac-
turers, have purchased ground in st.
Louis, and perfected plans for a factory
that will cover twenty acres. cost ST.
0 5000, and give employment, when fin
ished, to 5000 hands.
The funeral of Alexander III, of Rus
STA took place on Nov. 10, in St. Peters,
burg, amid a notable gathering of the
royal families OF Europe, or their rep
resentatives. The services lasted from
1890 a. NJ, until 4 D. m.
The Russian government last week
received dispatches from Erzeroum con-
firming the reports of the Sassoun mas
sacre of Armenlans. The Turkish SOL
diers killed many Kurds who refused to
help them kill the Christians.
The amount spent on the navy during
the last fiscal year was $31, $40, la, of
which $8,251. 072 was for payments on
new ships. The cost of maintaining the
cruiser Chicago (second rate) in COM
mission during the year was $310,613.
The entire new issue of United States
five per cent bonds have been allotted to
a New York syndicate at 117.077 and ac-
crued interest from Nov. 1. The price
paid for the bonds will make the rate of
interest equivalent to 2 10 per cent. -.
The Bureau of Navigation's tables
chant marine of the United States COM
prised 1856 vessels, of 4.696,028 gross
tons. Since 1884, the number of vessels
has decreased 504, but the gross tonnage
increased $4,000.
Sam Jones has raised the devil" 90
to speak, in the town of Monroe, on the
whisky question. As a direct result of
his preaching on the subject of drunk
ton to the mayor of the town and the
police jury, demanding that an election
be ordered on the question of license or
no license. There is every reason to be-
lieve that the town and parish will go
"dry" and the sale of whisky stopped
completely.-Colfax Chronicle.
A contemporary says that newspaper
subscriptions are infallible tests Of a
mans honesty. They will sooner or la
ter discover the man. If he is dishonest
iO Will SuO0U thO oOWC way Coy
he has a receipt somewhere, or sent the
money and it was lost in the mails, or
he will take the paper and not pay for
it on the ground that lie did not sub
scribe for it, or moves away, leaving it in
the Office he left. Thousands Of pro-
fessed Christians are dishonest in this
particular at least.
The latest advices from Hawaii re-
ceived at the Legation, in Washington,
show that the American Union party,
which represents the annexation senti-
ment in the islands made a clean sweep
practically in the elections of Oct. 90,
for senators and Representatives. A
Hawaiian must have an annual income
Of $500 or taxable property valued at
$1,000 before he a vote for Senator's,
and must read and write the English
language before he is qualified to cast a
vote for Representatives.
Ex- congressman Tom Watson, who
was defeated in the Tenth Georgia Dis
trict by j. c. C. Black, the sitting menu
Der, proposed to Mr.. Black to appoint a
commission to purge the illegal votes
cast at the election and abide by the
result. Black declined this plan as i'm
practicable, but offered, instead, to re-
sigh HIS Scdts VI tdAO CucCG mdICl 4,
1895, provided Watson will agree to re-
fer the question back to the people that
a new election may be held, and Wat
son has accepted the offer.
An exchange very correctly remarks
that " the cry of fraud comes up from
all over the land where the Australian
ballot system does not prevail" Had
the State administration kept out of the
contest for ballot reform during the re-
cent session of the general assembly and
permitted the adoption of the Avery bill
this State would to-day be spared the
disgrace of having the seats Of five out
of her six congressman contested. Men
who have no confidence in the law can
never be convinced otherwise than that
they have been swindled. Give to them,
however. a law that they do have conf
dence in, and give them the just repre-
sentatioD they are entitled to in its ap-
plication, and we do believe that DEM
ocracy will not only come out triumph
antly but contests of the result will be
rare.-Baton Rouge Capital Item.