St. Landry democrat., 1882-07-29

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ment at Springfield, ILL.,, July 49, The pail
bearers We're Gov. Cuhom Of Illinois, judy
S. Fl. Treat, Col. John Williams, Gen
. John A. McClernand, Hon. Jacob Burr
= Maj. John S. Bradford and Hon. J. C
Conkling. The funeral procession was
very large one. The flags on the Stat
: House, Government buildings and Court
house were at half-mast.
THE New York Greenback- Labor
Convention at Albany, July 10, reatfirme,
the platform of the Chicago Convention O
, June 8, 1880, and nominated Epenetus How
for Governor. The resolutions denounc,
monopolsts, the penal code, and declare tn
civil service demands that all officials b.
l elected instead Of appointed.
GEN. GRANT is reported to have ex
pressed himself to the effect that an En-
glish protectorate of Egypt would develol
the resources of the country and improve
the condition OF the people, who, he says
are ten times worse off than the negroes O.
the South.
THOMAS KELLY, the Christianized
Chinaman brought to this country when s
boy and trained for missionary work. died
in Denver, Colo, the other day.
MARQUIS RAYS, who organized the
unfortunate colony of the South Seas, has
been arrested at Barcelona, and will be ex-
tradicted to France.
The Georgia Democrats have nomi-
mated Alexander II. Stephens for Governor.
The Porte has replied to an identical
note of the Powers regarding the dispatch
OF Turkish troops to Egypt, and proposes
the assembling of a new conference.
Col. BRACKENBURG, Director of the
Criminal Investigation Department OF Ire
land, has resigned on account of difference
with the Lord Lieutenant, who did uot
agree with him in allowing the police to join
secret societies in order to turn informers.
Some new rules also promulgated by Col
Brackenburg offended resident magistrates,
several of whom retired.
Hon. L. E. SMITH, of Rutland, VT,
was found dead in a Lake Shore sleeping
car near Erie, Pa, the other day.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
AT La Fayette, Ind, the other night,
Harry Stoy, % years old, who has led
checkered life, told his sweetheart he was
tired of life, gave her his coat to hold, placed
himself across the track, and was cut to
pieces by an engine.
DURING a sudden squall on Lake
Chautauqua. n. Y, ON the 18th. a rowboat
containing DR.. A. P. King and wife, Of
London, O.; Prof. Leland, of st. Louis, and
young lady from London, was capsized.
Prof. Leland and the young lady reached
shore, but DIR. and Mrs. King, who had been
married less than year, were drowned.
JOSEPH CURNANE, aged 20, a deaf
mute who has been trying to starve himself
to death at the county infirmary, Wapako-
meta, Ohio, for some weeks, succeeded on
the 18th.
FIVE cars were derailed and four pas
sengers fatally injured near Charlottetown,
Prince Edward Island, July II. Collector
Real, of Boston, was wounded. An axle
broke.
Mrs. HUFFMAN, wife of farmer |
near Upper Sandusky, Ohio, lost her life |
the other day in attempting to save that of
a little daughter who had fallen into els !
tern.
AT Morrillton, Ark, on the 18th, in a
quarrel between boy named Page and |
colored youth named Greenlaw, the latter |
stabbed the former over the heart with a |
penknife, causing instant death.
WHILE Everett Decker was taking a
lady home from church, at Pomeroy, Ohio, |
recently, a jealous rival named Wills, IS !
years Of age, struck him on the head with au !
ak, inflicting a fatal wound.
A DISPATCH from Houghton, Mich,
says a boat containing three women and
four men capsized on Portage River, July
is, and George Lacrosse and wife and Mrs.
Joseph BIanchett were drowned. Indians
saved the others.
ROBERT BROWN, Is years old, killed
himself at Topeka, Kans., the other day,
because he could not agree with his step
father.
AT Socorro, N. M, on the 18th, John
Mullens, clerk at the Windsor Hotel, was
shot by colored porter. A woman was
he cause.
THOMAS MOORE, of New Albany,
md, was killed by lightning during a re-
cent storm.
D. G. OPERO, q Venezuelan of good
amily, placed himself in front of a mirror
It his boarding house in New York on the
9th, put pistol into his mouth, and blew
tut his brains. A farewell mssive ended
With: Gin order not to incur further charges
# meanness I am going to kill myself and
" that act will show my own opinion of my
NTTSCFIJANFOIJS
AT meeting Of the Ohio Republi can
Association in Washington, D. c., the other
light, letter from Mrs. Garfield, offering
o sell the family residence, at the corner Of
thirteenth and streets. was read. She set |