St. Landry democrat., 1882-10-07
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


for each OF two hundred lectures on popular
science to be delivered in this country in
1883 and 1884.
PETER COOPER, who was born in New
York when the city had population OF 81, :
900, has spent the last three months in pre-
pairing his autobiography. His health is
excellent and his mind unimpaired.
GEN. SCHoFIELD has been assigned
to the division of the Pacific.
THE Khedive, with the approval Of
England, has offered to Baker Pasha the re-
organization of the Egyptian army. Baker
accepts the task.
DEMONSTRATIONS amendment regu-
has been adopted.
THE Dublin correspondent of the Lon
don Times intimates that Dillon has with
drawn from political life because he does
not fall in with what he considers the milk
and water policy Of his associates.
Col. J. B. PRICE, who was indicted
for connection with the star.route conspir-
acy, voluntarily appeared before Judge
Krekel, at Kansas City, Mo-, the other day,
Washington for trial. He spent several
months in Canada.
WHILE the Jeromist section of the
Bonapartists were holding a meeting in
Paris to denounce the Pays and the Petit
Caporal, the opposition section Of the party
forced entrance into the hall. Revolvers and
swords were displayed and number OF as
sauits were committed. The Jeromists de-
clare the recent duel between Dichard and
Demassas, in which the latter was killed,
was virtually an assassination. The feud be-
tween the two sections is becoming very in
tense.
FRED DOUGLASS says he is not ''the
prominent coored man" goile, to Virginia
in the interest Of straightout Republicans.
He is in sympathy with Malone. He de-
clines an invitation to Ohio for the reason
that he is too old to travel.
CALEB G. DICKINSON has left $780,
600 to found charity hospital at Northamp-
ton, Mass.
LORD DUFFERIN has communicated to
Lord Granville note from the Porte thank
ing Great Britain for re-establishing order
in Egypt, and expressing hope that the bonds
of friendship at present existing between
Turkey and England would become still
closer. Granville has replied, expressing sat-
isfaction at the sentiments of the Ottoman
Government.
A VIENNA newspaper says the En-
peror OF Russia was secretly crowned dur
ing the recent visit to Moscow. 1t the En-
peror lives till the public coronation the Sc
cret ceremony will be considered void. In
the event of his death it will be made pub.
lie, so as to avoid any difficulty in proclaim
ing the Czarewitch Alexander as the lawful
successor of the crowned monarch.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR left New York
the other night for the Thousand Islands.
JUDGE BLACK, on behalf of the Nor
mons, will present to the Secretary OF the
Interior argument in favor Of the removal Of
Governor Murray, of Utah, in connection
with argument to prove the Utah Commits
sion unconstitutional.
ON the charge of heretical teaching,
the trustees of the Newton Theological In
stitution, in Massachusetts,, have dismissed
Professor E. P. Gould from the chair OF
New Testament Interpretation.
GENERAL RossER is at the head of
project to build a railway from Winnipeg to
Hudson Bay, by which the grain Of the
Northwest will find its way to Liverpool.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
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