St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-12-09
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE decapitated postmaster of Wash
ington and his assistant have addressed a
letter to the President, asking an investiga-
ton Of their acts by a commission.
ii. O. HOFFMAN, of Bloomington, ILL.,,
publishes card Withdrawing from further
prosecution OF his case before the confer
ence at Des Moines.
D. f. FISHER, doorkeeper of the New
York Academy OF Music, claims to have re-
ceiyed check for $4,000 from a gentIe-
man for whom he did a favor twenty years
ago.
IT is expected that the President in
his message will make clear the difference
between his South American policy and that
of Mr.. Blaine. He will express no hostility
to the De Lesseps canal schemes.
The Chilians continue to levy heavy
fines on the merchants OF Lima and threaten
to make the exactions tenfold worse in case
the peace negotiations fail. One difficulty
in the way Of an adjustment seems to be
that no sooner is matter agreed upon than
the Chilians set it aside and increase their
demands. Montero has called for elections
of Congressman in all parts OF the country
still under Peruvian rule, and the Congress
SO chosen will meet at Arequipa in March.
Until then it looks as though no authorize
tive action need be expected.
SENATOR WINDOWS friends contra
dict the story Of his being wealthy. They
say. in fact. he is as s'poor as turkey.,'
They figure up his wealth, gained in public
life, as scarcely exceeding $780,
TREyELYAN, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, in Parliament, Nov. n, stated that a
conflict between the Dublin police and OF:
ganized lawlessness seemed inaugurated.
The Government was determined to use all
the resources at its disposaI to put down
the latest development OF disorder.
The popular vote in the Swiss cleo
ton was against State control of the schools.
The Madagascar ambassadors have
refused TO recognize French protectorate.
The remains of DR.. Lorenzo Ehrhart,
OF Allegheny City, were cremated at the Lee
moline furnace in Washington, Pa, Nov. o.
SECRETARY FoLGER in recent in
terview denied in the most emphatic Ian
guage that he had rendered his resignation,
and added that the matter had never been
referred to-, either by the President or him.
self.
GEN. ANDREW S. HEBRON, Congress
man .elect from the Sixth Louisiana District,
died of heart disease the other night.
DUBLIN is proclaimed under the cur
few clause OF the repression act, the police
being thereby authorized to make arrests of
all suspicious characters abroad in hours Of
darkness.
JOHN T. MORGAN has been elected to
the United States Senate by the Alabama
Legislature.
Il MEMBERS of the English Parliament
have called Lord Granville's attention to
French designs on Madagascar, claiming
that the English trade aud population on
the island are five times those OF France.
AFTER throwing out the parishes Of
Assumption and St. Mary, the Louisiana
canyassers report 1000 majority for William
Pitt Kellogg for Congress for the Third Dis
trict. Governor McEnery refused to issue
certificate OF election, on the ground of
Kel!og's non-residence in the State.
In delivering his last lecture as pro-
fessor at Harvard, Dr.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes was presented by the students with
q cup bearing an appropriate couplet from
his writings. His chair is to be taken by
DR.. Thomas Dwight.
CORPORAL BLUCHER, of the Second
Artillery, post schoolmaster at Fort Nc
Henry, Baltimore, Md, a lineal descend
ant of the famous marshal, has been ten
dered by Baker Pasha staff position in9the
Khedive's army. He has served as military
attache of the German legation in Egypt.
REV. JAMES BEECHER, half-brother
OF the Brooklyn pastor, has been sent to the
asylum at Middleton. N. X, for treatment
by physicians familiar with mental dis
eases.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
NORRIS BERWALD, aged IS, was
killed by highwayman in the streets OF
New York the other morning.
Two passenger trains on the Pitts
burg Southern Railroad collided near Castle
Shannon, Pa. Nov. %. Both engines and I
the baggage -cars were badly wrecked. Con-
ductor Barney and several passengers were
slightly injured, but none seriously.
r. PORTER LEE, embezzling president
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