St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-01-07
MISCELLANEOUS. :

LATE irish news: DOnaghue, land
agent and clerk of the Tabbercuny County
Sligo) Board of Guardians, was fired on in
his Office the other evening and dangerously
injured. Copies Of the United Ireland have
been seized and confiscated. The suspect
Moore has been released from Kimainham
prison on condition that he emigrate. At
Caselton, Miss Reynolds, charged with aid
ing and abetting criminal conspiracy to
prevent the payment Of rent, was ordered to
either find bail to keep the peace for six
months or undergo months Imprisonment.
She refused to give bail, and went to Jail.
The police of Limerick seized a Christmas
Parnell card which had an enormous sale.
VIM. V. BROWN, an assistant book
keeper in the Poughkeepsie IN. Y } National
Bank, has been arrested for completely in
the embezzlement so successfully carried
out by Teller Holloway. The latter is now
in an insane asylum.
JOHN WELLS, on trial at Leaven-
worth, Kans., for the murder of John Wad-
del, his father in-law, has been found guilty
of murder in the first degree. The law, ac-
cording to the verdict, imprisons Wells for
one year, and at the expiration of that time
he can be hung, provided the Governor is
sues special order to that effect; otherwise
he remains in the Penitentiary, SO the ver-
dict is virtually life imprisonment.
HATTIE LLOYD, aged 16, eldest
daughter of Rev. Vim. A. Lloyd, of Ravens
wood, Chicago suburb, attempted suicide
the other evening by shooting herself in the
breast with revolver. 1t was thought the
course Of the bullet had been detected by
striking rib above the heart, and thereby
instant death averted. The girls family
say there was no known cause for her rash
act, but think she was temporarily deranged,
caused by falling down stairs and hurting
her head a few days previous.
ANOTHER Nihllist plot against the
Gar has been discovered. A mine was laid
in karavanian street, through which it was
he would proceed on the occasion
of the fete of st. George. Fortunately he
wnet by another route.
The Guiteau trial was proceeded with
on The 9th, before densey packed court
room. Upon reaching his seat Guiteau
looked around smilingly and said: II had a
nice Christmas dinner and hope everybody
else did. had lots Of fruits. flowers and
lady visitors and good time.' The exam
ination Of experts regarding the prisoners
sanity was continued, the principal witness
being DR.. E. A. Macdonald, Superintend-
ent of the Ward Island Insane Asylum, New
York. His evidence was strongly against
the insanity theory, and he said he believed
The prisoner had been studiously playing a
part ever since his Incarceration. Guiteau
furnished the reporters with long Christ
mas greeting" addressed to the American
people, in which he again brought forward
the inspirational theory as a justification OF
his great crime. A sensational episode in
The trial occurred on the 18th, when Guiteau
was placed in the prisoners dock, by order
IF the Court, on account Of his persistent
violation of order and decorum. In en-
'orcing this decision Judge Cox said in ef-
'ect that the extreme latitude hitherto per-
nitted the prisoner had been for the pur-
pose OF affording the experts in court the
fullest opportunity to judge Of his mental
md moral characteristics, and that the Dis
has expressly desired this
reedom be granted the prisoner. The ex-
,ert testimony being now about concluded,
he Court said no further good could result
rom these unseemly exhibitions Of the pris-
,ner, and he should therefore insist hereaf-
er upon the orderly conduct of the case.
iuiteau at first manifested the greatest re-
to being removed to the prisoners
lock, promising to keep quiet il allowed to
emain inside the bar. The order was,
however, enforced, and the prisoner took
lis place in court for the first time as COM
non criminal.
CRoNsTADT, Russia, has been partial
= destroyed by fire, which is charged to Nj.
lilist incendiaries.