St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-10-01
MISCELLANEOUS.


A HEAVY storm visited Danville, Va,
on the 18th. Trees and fences were blown
down, also the Confederate Military Hosp-
tai, injuring several coored people.
FRESH explosions of Socialists are re-
ported from Berlin. The police prohibit
all meetings in which socialists are likely to
participate.
The anniversary of Mexican indie
pendenee, September IS, was observed bv
the opening of public works throughout the
country.
The National Land League Conven-
ton met at Dublin on the 15th about one
thousand delegates being present, including
| twentv-one members OF Parliament. Parne
occupied the chair. He said the Land act
| left the rent question as continual source
of discomfort and strife between different
classes in ireland. He had no doubt this
was designedly o.arranged by the British
Government. He warned farmers not to
trust to the Land act 1T was, he said, de-
signed to break the League. Nobody should
appeal to Land Courts until test cases to be
prepared by the League had been submit
ted. They should press forward to the
abolition of landlordism and to leg
islative independence. He advised
farmers to borrow money under the
Land act so as to give work to
laborers, and invited the latter to join |
branches Of the League. He pledged him
self to head -laborers' movement if the |
farmers did not. Parnell in his speech re- |
aSc tod hot foi, h. ~
the land in state of nature, before it was
improved by a tenant or any of his prede-
cessors. In regard to the industrial ques-
ton, he said Irishmen should encourage
home manufactures, even if they had to pay
dearer than for foreign goods. Things not
producible in Ireland should be bought in
America. English goods should not be
bought in any event. Sexton then moved
the Land Leagues resolutions,
and they were carried with acclamation.
CHARLES BECKER, said to be one of
The most successful counterfeiters in the
has been arrested in the suburbs Of
Brooklyn, N. Y, and large amount Of
paraphernalia secured, among
hem being ten finely engraved stones, rep $
'esenting fac-s SMILES of 1,0O0-franc notes of
he Bank Of France, four presses, ETC.
A SNOWFALL of several inches was
eported on the 10Th in Northern Iowa and ]
southern Minnesota. y. tv ##h#
A FIRE at Carrollton, Mo-, on the !
vening OF the 18th, destroyed the Carroll :
louise, a fine three-story brick building, '
ogether with several old frame buildings !;
t no great value, in which the fire orig 9
mated. Y
MAURICE g. STELLHEIMER, aged 26, G
oupon clerk in the office of J. & W. Selis- Y
ian d. Co. New York, is under arrest '
harged with embezzling $4,000. Tho q
honey was mostly lost in stock speculation. I
tellheimer fled from the city upon the dis \
overy of his defalcation, taking with him a IT.
Dung lady companion. A detective was ]
laced upon his track and his arrest was n
nally accomplished on lake steamer bound =
n Duluth. Il
DIPHTHERIA is epidemic in Russia. y
1 some parishes all the children under Is II
ears have died of the dread disease. The Ii
'ntagion first appeared in Bessarabia in Y
~. Since then it has spread over the Il
'uth OF Russia, from whence it has spread
ward the east and northwest. In the
rovlnce OF PultoWa, which has less than sc
o,ooo people there have been 45,543 per- III III
ms stricken by the disease, and of these ut
765 have died. io
AT Oakland, Ky.,P. H. Winegardner, IL
noted counterfeiter, was shot and danger N
sly wounded by woman named Laura bI
orehead, 70 whom he. was engaged to be p,
'rrled, but Tor some reason the engage. W.
INT was broken off. He questioned her tn
'ity. and in moment of frenzy she got n1
Iolver and fred two shots. I'm