St. Landry democrat., 1881-09-03
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

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HARTMANN, the Russian Nihilist, ha
returned to New York from Canada, ant
has formally entered the declaration Of hi
intention to become Il citizen of the Unitet
States.
LIEUT.. H. FLIPPER, colored, of tn,
Tenth Cavalry, stationed at Fort Davis
Texas, has been placed under arrest charged
with defrauding the Government out o
about 81 200, which passed into his hand:
as disburs,ng officer.
The Anti-monopoly Convention, re.
Gently in session at Utica, N. Y, adopted an
address to the people, also platform OF
principles. The latter says: ''Farmers,
manufacturers and merchants alike demand
that they shall have all the advantages which
accrue to them from their favorable position,
and that railroads they have chartered and
endowed with privileges shall be operated
for their benefit and not for their ruin.'
The abolition Of free passes by railroad
corporations to legislators is urged, and
the enlargement of canal and free tolls ad-
vocated.
Ex-Gov. STEPHEN MILLER, of
Minnesota, is dead.
EX-CoNGREssMAN Martin F. Conway,
of Kansas, who once shot Senator Pomeroy
and has long been confined in an insane
asylum al Washington, D. c., has been re-
leased.
THE condition of the President on
Sunday, the 21st, was such as to cause the
most serious apprehensions. Renewed at
tacks of vomiting again compelled the ply
sicans to resort to the injection Of liquid
nourishment, but the trouble was believed
to be caused not so much by gastric de-
rangement as by the flowing of mucus
from the salvary glands into the throat, the
result of the swelling of the parotid gland.
That this swelling was the result Of blood
poisoning, and hence of very grave import,
was tacitly admitted by some Of the physi-
clans in charge. The condition of the pa
tient on the two following days improved
somewhat, and he was able to take some
slight nourishment in the ordinary manner.
On the 23d the situation was still considered
very grave, however, and while the physi-
clans generally expressed belief that the
patient would rally, it was evident that an
extremely serious crisis had arisen, the out
come of which no one could foresee. In
dispatch to Minister Lowell, forwarded on
the night of the ed, Secretary Blaine said:
ellis general condition is serious, if not
critical. He is weak, exhausted and ema-
ciated, not weighing over 125 pounds. His
weight when wounded was from 2O5 to 90
pounds. His failure to regain strength is
the one feature which gives special uneasi-
ness and apprehension.
The resignation is announced of Mr..
A. W. soper, for ten years Superintendent
and General Manager Of the Iron Mountain |
Railroad. He will be succeeded by Mr.. Fl. |
n. Hoxie, General Manager of the Interna-
fional & Great Northern and of the Texas |
& Pacific Roads of Texas.
GEN. LESLIE COMBS, of Kentucky. is
dead.
The result of the recent elections in
France shows general triumph Of the Re-
publican candidates. The Bonapartists lost
o number of seats. The elections in Spain
likewise resulted in great successes for the
Liberals.
ALEXANDER FL. STEPHENS has writ
ten private letter announcing that he is
very busiy engaged in writing book in re-
ply to the recently published work of Jeffer-
son Davis.
II is reported from Geneva that the
Socialists have addressed threatening let
ter to the Federal Tribunal in regard to
their appeal from the decision of the Grand
Council of Zurich prohibiting the Social
Congress there in September The letter
warns the Judges Tribunal that they will
be the first to be blown up, and states that
the Socialists have enough dynamite to blow
up half of Switzerland, and that it is in
Switzerland that a confagration will begin
that will burn up the world.