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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-07-08
STARVATION !

The Inhabitants of Patrick County, Va, in
! n Starving Conditional Terrible Story of
Suffering and Want Anything to Eat
! for My Starving Wife and Children!''-
kaw Corn Greedily Eaten by Hungry
Men. Women and Children.
A courier arrived here to-day in great dis
| trcsS from Patrick County. situated III one or
t the most remote districts of the State tic
! gives Il terrible account OF the sufcrngS or
! the people there, and reports no less than
| 1900 men, women and children actually starry
! ing, some already dead and others dying f0r
| want of food. This sickrnng state of affairs
! was brought about by the total failure OF tae
| crops in that county last summer. ana, while
| the people have been sorcy pressed for many
months it is only within the last two months
that their meagor supplies have been abso-
lutely exhausted and themselves brought to
starvation Patrick County is situated in one
of the most mountainous and inaccessible
regions of the STATE. The courier came to the
city to-day. presenting an appearance or
su tTeling and want that told his sad story be.
fore he opened his mouth He begged that the
people of the city go to work at once to send
the starving families meal and flour. They
did not ask for money. The suffering there
has been terrible. well-to-do farmer Thurs
day offered 800 cash for barrel of -four and
could not huy it for twice that amount Fri
day the first wagon otd of shelled corn went
to the county from this vicinity. The people
along the roads heard of its coming, ana rs
soon us it entered the county men. women ana
children crOuchch around it and fought raw
enousy for every grain OF corn they could
get. which they ate grccdly, without waiting
to cook it. Attempts are being maze to at
ri .tf q
of getting meal an flour to the starving hun
dreds in the cDuni,.
Additional particulars stat that in many in
stances women bearing infants in their arms
have walked fifteen miles over the rugged
mountain roads and through the Wild deties
searching for something to eat Whole taIni-
lies have left Their homcStcads and are getting
out of the cOu aty in their efforts to reach
some section of the country in which they can
Get corn or flour. In some instances families
have kept alive BY boiling weeds and actu-
ally eating leaves from the trees. Some
of the sturdy mOuntaineerS, who had
an idea that the starvation district was
limited to an arcH Of about twelve miles, have
walked twenty miles. only to be met on all
sides by the pitcouS appeals for bread" Any
thing to eat for my starving W ife and chill
dren.' Men who h We been through battles
and stood all sorts OF hardships have been
seen on the crossroads weeping as they real
lied the terrible situation in which their iami-
lies have been placed. Remote as the district
is. reports are coming in giving sickening de
tails of the condition OF Affairs. The appeals
come: We don't want any money, but send
us meal and tlo,.r'' DIppAe, III. tune 10)
Specialize Chicuyo Tribune.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-07-08
CONDENSED TELEHRAMS.

The bank charter extension bill came
up in the Senate, June IS, and the commit
tee amendment to exempt national banks
from attachment by State courts was voted
down.
JAMES VAUGHN, who murdered VIM.
Watts, in Augut last, was hanged at Pinck-
NEVILLE, ILL.,, June Is. Milton Yarberry, a
notorious desperate, dropped out in the
same way at Albuquerque, n. Mex.
AT a free fight in Llano, Texas, June
ID, Henry Hatty was killed and four men
were wounded. Winchester rifles were
used, some sixty shots being exchanged. A
wagon Was completely ridded, and two
horses and several boys were killed. The
trouble grew out of charges of theft made
by one faction against another. Troops
were asked to protect the District Court and
arrest the participants.
ARMED citizens of Mount Sterling,
Ky, June IA, lynched a negro named
Mitchell, who had just been Jailed for as
saulting the wife of farmer.
MRS. W. E. ROBINSON, of Detroit,
Mich, died in bath tub, June IA. She
was subject to heart trouble. 1t is supposed
the water may have induced sudden recur-
renee of her malady, rendering her helpless.
MRS. NELSON, wife of a prominent
merchant of Red Wing, Mimi, and Miss
Bradley, of Springfield, Ohio, were drowned
while boating on the 18th.
AFTER preliminary shot at Police
man Schriver's eye, June Is, Mr.. Schu-
macker, a saloon deeper at Jackson, Mich. ;,
killed his wife and then fatally shot himself.
Schriver may recover.
A FIERCE storm at GAINESVILLE, Tenn,
the other morning unroofed several houses
and destroyed trees and fences. William
Bird and Edward Sinclair were killed by
lightning.
NEARLY one hundred American au-
thors gathered at Newton, Mass, the other
day, to celebrate the 10th birthday Of Har-
the Beecher family were present, and poems
were read by John e.. Whittier and Oliver
Wendell Holmes.
LOUIS SrssLER and Miss Bigford, of
Plattevile, Wis, were united in marriage,
under most happy auspices, a few days ago.
Two days afterward the bride arose at an
early hour, seemingly in the best of spirits,
and deliberately shot herself dead. No
cause is assigned.
AT Canton, Ohio, on the morning of
the 10Th, officers were attracted to the house
of George Mcmillan by pistol reports and
cries of "Murder" Mrs. Mcmillan was ~
ing in bed, with fatal wound in her tenn
pie, and her husband was losing blood from
a scratch in his breast. George told an un-
story, and was taken to jail.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-07-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE Treasury Department suspends
for the present operation of formulas for
| the construction of boiler fues of less than
sixteen inches in diameter, recently adopted
by the Board of Supervising Inspectors.
FoRTY-FoUR persons were drowed by
the recent flood in Versetz, Hungary.
M. J. CLOVIS, of Griswold, Iowa, was
MORALLY wounded in the street at Council
Bluffs, the other day, and robbed of 81, 700.
He was found near the depot with his skull
fractured.
JOHN MOORE, a peddler from Omaha,
was lured into room on Clark street, Chi
cago, by a colored woman, the other eve
ming, and robbed of $500, the savings
eighteen years.
Mr.. BoCHMAN, brewer, has pre-
sented to the Italian colony of New York
the house and grounds on Staten Island &C.
cupied by Garibaldi as candle factory.
HEAVY storms impeded railway travel
and interrupted Geographic communication
through Southern Indiana and Ohio on the
14th.
A HEAVY rainfall flooded the streets
of Indianapolis, Ind, June IA. Next morn
inc number of people were standing on
platform spanning Pogue's Run, just east
of the Union Depot, looking at the angry
food, when the structure suddenly gave
way, and the entire number were precipi-
tated intothe swift current, fifteen feet deep.
Below this point there is bridge, and the
stream runs under the depot, emerging on
the south side through stone culverts.
Cyrus Bartlett, workman, Immediately
jumped into the flood and rescued two
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-07-08
SWindling Farmers.

The reports Of farmers being swindled by
travelling sharpers are less numerous than
they were few years ago. Farmers are not
as anxious as they were of becoming agents
for the sale of useless implements or to pur-
chase patent rights. They are more careful
about signing orders for lghtning-rods and adj
vancing money for goods to be delivered in the
future. In brief, they are becoming more in-
telligent In all business matters. Cases of
sWlndllng are occasionally reported, but when
they are 1t IS evident that the sharpers have
been Obliged to resort to some new dodge in
ofder TO insure success A new swindle, ac-
cordlng to local reports, has been perpetruted
in several places in Iowa during the past
month. 1t requires two persons to manage it
successfully, They watch the papers for no.
tees of estrays. One goes to look at a horse
or COW, and soon decides that it is not
the one he has lost During his visit he care
fully notices the size color and peculiar
marks on the animal, and forms a pretty ac-
curate opinion in regard to its weight and are
He reports all these matters to his 'spartner.''
who, in few days. pays a visit to the farm
where the animal was taken up. He is able TO
give so full and accurate description of the
lost animal that the person in whose pos
session 1t is has no reluctance in offering to
give it up. The pretended owner. however,
mas 1t lnconvenient to take it home, and of
lers TO sell It at a low price. The farmer ac-
ceptS the proposition to SELL and pays over
the money In the course OF few days the
rlghtiul owner comes along and claims the
animal and produces evidence that it is his.
Inc residence of the seller can not be ascer-
tanned, and, OF course, the buyer is out the
money he has paid -GhieIGo Times
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-07-08

girls, and at least fifteen others were saved
before being swept under the bridge. Sew
eral others passed through the culverts and
were drawn out, but others were swept by
to certain death. The bodies of Katie Gill
derman, George f. Scoyille, A. X. Saunders,
Edward Tilford, and George W. Smith
were recovered. 1t is supposed that at
least ten persons were drowned. The dam =
age to property is estimated at $250, 900. A
cabin occupied by railroad laborers, near
| Winchester, KY, was swept away by a
| swollen stream on the same day, and ten or
eleven lives were lost. .-.
WEEDEN and Maloney fought forty
one rounds in seventy minutes near Smiths
Ferry, Pa, June Is. Weeden had every
thing his own way, but was overawed by
roughs and agreed to call it draw. Ma
loney was badly punished.
FREDERICK VOss, aged s, who was
run over by Third avenue car in New
York City, is to receive $4,000 for the loss
Of leg.
HERE is the widest alarm at Bridge
water, Dakota, over the outbreak of six
cases OF smallpox. A pest-house has been
ordered erected one mile outside the town,
trains are not allowed to stop, and the vii
lage OF Salem has established quarantine.
A TRAIN on the Louisville, New Alba
ny & Cincinnati road rolled down an en-
bankment near Bedford, Ind, June 10, and
number OF passengers were injured. The
engineer was making up lost time at the rate
of sixty miles an hour
The Brooktield (Mo.) bank robbers
have been sentenced to twenty-five years.
imprisonment.
The Society of the Army of the Poto-
mac convened in Detroit, Mich, on the 18th.
General A. A. Humphrey was elected Pres
ldent, and Washington was chosen as the
next place of meeting. Music Hall was elab-
orately decorated for the evening reception.
The especial objects Of interest were Grant,
Sheridan, Siclles, and ex-President Hayes.
IHE steamship Pera, which sailed
from Montreal May 81, with two hundred
head of cattle, struck an iceberg and found
cred off Cape Race. Thirty of the crew
were picked up by the steamship Lake
Manitoba, but it is feared that ten lives
have been lost
THE German Pertinent, after a lively
discussion, in which Bismarck spoke for 3wo
hours. rejected the tobacco monopoly bill.
L. I. BAKER, who has been on trial
at Lancaster o., for embezzlng $4,000
while County Treasurer, has fled the town,
FORGETTING -, 900 bail.
The French and British ambassadors
at Constantinople, supported by other dip
lomats, urge the immediate asse milling of
the conference upon Egyptian affairs. Glad
stone announced in the House of Commons
that all the powers are heartily co-operat-
ing with England, ana that the Sultan is in
complete harmony. Four steamers leaving
Alexandria carried full loads OF Europeans,
and it is stated that many heav capitalists
are calmly arranging to leave. The British
Consul General desires all British subjects
to depart, but hesitates to produce a panic
by official request. The bodies of an Eng
fish officer and two seamen, killed in the
riot, were buried at sea, to avoid an out
break on shore.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-07-08
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The Irish Bishops have issued an adj
dress offering support to the people in
peaceful agitation, and appealing to them
to oppose secret societies as hostile to relig-
ion and to freedom. Evictions are pro-
nounced permanently provocative Of crime
Mr.. ANTHONY has been reelected
United States Senator from Rhode Island.
MEXICAN officials think that the OBJ
ject of the visit of the President of Guate. :
mala to the United States, is to bring about
consolidation Of the five Central American
republics, with himself at the head.
THREE Mormons have started for
Washington to present to Congress the new
State Constitution for Utah. Ex-Delegate
Hooper declined to make the trip.
The number of suspects still impris-
oned in Ireland is 263. Secretary Trevelyan
stated in the House Of Commons that John
Cannon refused to accept release on con-
dition that he 90 to the United States.
THE Car of Russia has approved the
resolution of the Imperial Council in favor
of the foundation of bank for the purpose
of facilitating the acquisition OF land by
peasants.
THE Maine Republicans want protec-
ton, gold and silver dollars of equal intrin-
sic value, national banks, debt reductions,
taxation of liquors, liberal pensions, and
prohibition amendment to the Constitution.
VIM. DENNIsoN, Ex-Governor of Ohio,
died June Is, aged 81.
GEN. RosEcRANs has been inter-
viewed in regard to the letters from General
Garfield to Secretary Chase, recently pub
lished. He stated that his information Of
the actual incidents connected with the con-
ference between Stanton and Garfield at
Louisville came from General Arson Stager.
who was present, who says that Garfield lit
orally reversed the facts OF the interview.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-07-08

D. H. P1NNEY, of Joliet, ILL.,, has been
appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Arizona.
The President has approved the SEN
tence of the court martial dismissing Lieut..
Flipper from the service.
THE Republican State Convention of
North Carolina Endorsed the nominees of
the liberal movement, and passed resolu-
ton requesting members OF the Legislature
to vote against prohibitory liquor laws.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-07-08
Sheep i'm the United States.

The following advanced figures were fur
nished by the Superintendent of the Census
for the information of Congressman in recent
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-24
NOT MUCH OF A MYSTERY.

The New York Times, speaking of the
McGarrahan claim, observes that the mys.
terry about it is that latter being kicked
"out of Courts and committeeman SO
"often that it has become battered beyond
call resemblance of its original self, it
"should have in Congress SO many friends. !"
There is here no mystery whatever. The
McGarrahan claim has been kept alive, and
has recently been given sort of rejuven.
escence, by q process thoroughly familiar
to every practical politician. When
private claim fails to pass Congress on its
merits, because it has none, the claimant
proceeds to enlarge it, and out of the
ided portion he creates fund wherewith
to corrupt congressman and others. This
is what has been done with the McGarrahan
claim. The audacious impostor who has
been haunting Washington Hobbies for
twenty years with that naked fraud, has
repeatedly had recourse to the method
spoken Of, and in his last and most daring
venture he has raised the claim to such an
amount as enables him to expend ii neces.
sary twenty millions of dollars in bribery.
He could do that and still have fifty mill
ions of dollars if the outrageous claim
we're passed, AMI it is this wholesale
employment of bribery and corruption
which accounts for the fact, SO perplexing
to the Times, that the claim has $50 many
+" friends in Congress" There is not
word to be said. for the demand. 1t was
fraudulent at the beginning, and the fraud
has grown more monstrous every time it has
been reproduced. Every Court in the
country of any dignity and virtue has de-
nounced it as an outrage, and has rejected
it. Congress after Congress has thrown it |
put. And yet the hardy old adventurer
continues to push it with undiminished |
resolution, and only shows his appreciation
,f the just rebuffs he encounters by en-.
arging his corruption fund. The McGar-
.ahan claim is test case. II that case
ecures favorable action from Congress,
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THE OKLAHOMA sQUATTERs

The Government seems to be having
good deal of trouble with the perverse
and lawless people who insist On squat
ting upon the Oklahoma lands. They
are entirely without apology for their
persistence. They know that the terri
tory has been set apart for the Indians,
and that the Government is pledged in
the most solemn way not to allow any
white settlement there. Yet these obsti.
nate people insist, year after year, in
violating the law, and though they are
always compelled to go as they came, they
seem determined to keep up the invasion.
Perhaps if they were punished some
what more sharply they would be more
amenable to the law. A Government
which seems afraid to protect itself against
the most impudent lawlessness, and which
contents itself with simply ejecting
them from repeated trespasses, is not
likely to convince them that it is danger
Gus to proceed. Captain" Payne and
his raiders would be very much less likely
to continue their infractions of the law
if they were put in Jail for year or 80.
1t is the people of the United States whom
they are outraging, and that kind Of
wrong ought to be punished with some
severity. The consequences of too great
leniency are already seen in the renewal
of the invasions, and if nothing more
than election is ever to follow these breaches
of the law it seems possible that they
may go on indefinitely.
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CAR AND NIHILIsrs.

1t is reported that the Gar has con-
cluded to pat off his coronation for year,
the prospect of Nihilist interference with
the festive arrangements having become SO
probable that it is hardly possible to con.
tinue the preparations in sufficiently
cheerful spirit. The fact moreover that
the royal guests invited to be present have
nearly all been warned that their lives will
be in great danger if they attend, has had
tendency to cast gloom over the occasion.
The Gear cannot feel any assurance that
his safety or that of his guests has been
secured beyond question, and since he ma
turally shrinks from inviting his friends to
what may turn out feast of dynamite and
glass bombs, it is conceivable that post
ponement has seemed to him the only thing
in order. Whether Cars life is worth
living in such circumstances is question
which even Mr.. Mallcck would find it diff
cult to answer.
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COAST AND STATE.

Immigrants in search of small cheap
farms abound in Marion county, Or.
Sheep shearing is progressing in Jackson
and Douglas counties, Or, with satisfac-
tory results.
Within the year the mines of Arizona
Territory have paid nearly $1,000, 900 in
Observation-Disclosures Star.
The Indians on the Quilleute, w. T.,
reservation are catching great many land
otter, and occasionally sea lion.
Barley in some of the fields in Hamilton
ing will commence in q few days.
The fremen of Independence, Or, have
ordered q 500-pound bell, and expect to
have it to ring on the 4th of July.
The cereal crop of Tulare will not be
more than one-fourth what it would have
been were it not for the north winds.
The Grass Valley Tidiags reports that
the frost Of last week did some damage,
but not as much as was at first suspected.
A bill for 81 900 damages has been put
in by the owners Of property destroyed at
the late anti Chinese riot in Martinez.
Immigration is commencing to flow in
rapidly and the population of jackson
county, Or, will be greatly increased in
the next few years.
The vineyards around Jackson were
nipped by the frost last week. The
damage falls mainly upon vines growing in
the vicinity of the creeks.
There are now $1,000 eastern trout
ready at the fish hatchery at the lake, San
Leandro, for transportation to the head
waters of the American river.
The Reno, New, Journal says that work
on the Nevada and Oregon Railroad is to
be resumed shortly with the intention of
completing forty.fve miles OF it this
season.
We suggest to the War Department to
send Captain Hurst among the hostile
tribes, with instructions to issue duph-
Gates of his Tombstone dispatches. There
won't be bad Indian left in Arizona in |
hours.-lArizona Star.
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OPPOSITION TO THE ARREARS BILL.

The position of Gladstone's Government
is rendered more serious than ever by the
growing force of the Conservative opposi-
tioa to the Arrears of Rent bill. This
opposition takes the shape of a resolution
that the payment proposed should be a
loan and not gift, and denouncing the
provisions of the bill as communistic. The
Conservatives have here reached strong
point, for it is evident that if the principle
proposed by Gladstone in the Arrears bill
is once adopted, it will at no distant period
be sought to extend it to the Scotch and
English peasants as well as the Irish ones.
The whole land question may be sprung
upon the Government under cover of
Slater Booths resolution. in fact, and if
the Conservatives manage well they may
protract the debate indefinitely, and be &C.
duiring more strength all the time. APP
parently Gladstone has brought the Arrears
bill forward too soon. He should have
got the Repression bill out of the way be-
fore he introduced the new bone of con.
tention. As it is, the opposition threatens
to become more formidable as the subject
is discussed, and unless the Conservatives
fail through lack of leadership it seems
quite possible that they may defeat the
Government on this issue.
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Probabilities,
SECOND EDITION.

second edition Of the REcoRD-UNIoN is issued
each day at P. N. bringing the Eastern and coas
ews up to tina. hour. By this arrangement the
RECORD Union will present the latest news obtain
shle at all points east snd north Of Sacramento.
The regular morning edition Of the RECORD UNION
Is carried by morning trains and is ahead of all
competitors as far north Chico on the California
and Oregon Railroad; west to Benicia, and south to
Stockton, and east to Coliax, Folsom and Placer
lille ard all intermediate places The second edition
matter will be found each day upon the third page.