St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-10-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

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are still in the possession Of DIR. Shiffert, OF
the Army Medical Museum in Washington.
They have not been artculated and are in
perfect state Of preservation. Rev. DR..
Hicks has not yet surrendered all claims as
to their disposition and DR.. Shiffert will not
give them up to any one except upon the
payment of 1900 for his services.
AT the recent session of the Farmers
Congress, in st. Louis, President Hudson,
of Mississippi, took the ground that agri-
cultursts should have representation In the
Presidents cabinet, and that they should
have some one at Washington whose special
training and knowledge would enable him
to point out the evil effects of State legi>la-
ton on agriculture, as we'll as the results OF
commercial treaties. He also recommended
the organization of larger number OF state
and county organizations for the exhibition
of the products OF the country.
The Treasury Department estimates
the reduction in the public debt for Sep
TENDER at SIG, 100000. Checks have been
sent out for 81 1898 of quarterly interest.
THE application for writ of habeas
corpus in the case of Mason, the soldier who
fired at Guiteau. has been denied.
A TEXAS steer kept two wards of
Philadelphia, Pa, in commotion for two
hours the other day, injuring several per-
sons, and was killed with revolvers after he
had tired himself out.
THE American District Telegraph
Company in Chicago discharged lot of
striking messengers the other day and ad-
vertised for others. The discharged boys
gathered about the office prepared to pounce
upon their successors, and were so demon-
strative that police patrol had to be called
to disperse them.
GEN. J. X. BAKER, United States Col
lector at Mobile, Ala, was assaulted and Sc
verely injured by negro politician at club
meeting the other night.
CHARLES THORN, reputable citizen
| OF Union City, Ind, has been arrested on
| the charge of having assisted in the robbery
| OF stage coach and the killing Of a banker
in California on the 1st of September, 1879.
His real name is said to be Dorsey.
THE Yelled Prophet pageant in St.
Louis on the Sd was, perhaps, the erandest
| spectacle ever seen in this country. The IL
| Elimination was incomparaby brilliant, and
every picture was greeted with thunderous
applause from the thousands who clogged
the crossings, jammed the sidewalks,
swarmed on balconies and in windows, and
| chung with desperate tenacity to every van
tage point which commanded even a pass
| ing glimpse OF the wondrous panorama pre-
pared for their delectation.
The Germans of St. Louis have I'M
yelled granite obelisk at the grave of
Colonel Frederick Hecker, in Benton Park.
In the six-day pedestrian contest at
Birmingham, England, for the Ashley belt,
Littlewood made 414 miles in 20 hours and
! 20 minutes, beating Dobler's record in the
United States.
JEWISH families to the number of six
hundred have left Pressburg, Austria, on
account of the riots.
In accordance with the requirements
OF the river and harbor bill, the Secretary of
War has awarded the contract to the lowest
| responsible bidders for the leyee work on
the Lower Mississippi
The reward offered for the. arrest of
the Taylor brothers, the Tennessee murder
ers, has been increased to $40, 800, and the
State will probably make it larger. The
desperadoes are said 10 be in the mountains
seventy FIVE miles south OF Chattanooga.
JEROME STEWART, recently admitted
to the dental department of the University
of Pennsylvania, is charged with completely
in the robbery Of stationery store in Illi-
nois, last July.
THE Presbyterians OF Philadelphia,
Pa. ., think the use of instruments of music
is destructive Of the harmony Of worship
among the churches.
WHILE the arrival of the khedive at
Cairo, Egypt, was being celebrated by H.
Nominations at Assioot, 1000 Mussulmans
attacked the Copts and threatened to kill all
the Christians in the town. The Mudir in
terfered and quelled the riot.
PROF. TILDEN has submitted to Dis
| trict Attorney Corkhill the report of the
chemical examination of the poisoned bou-
| quet given Guiteau by his sister, Mrs. sco-
vile, the day before the execution. The re-
| port says the bud of half opened flower
contained over five grains of arsenic, not
only sufficient to cause death had it been
swallowed, but so largely in excess of fatal
dose, that the intent Of the person who pre-
pared the flower would have been defeated.
The jail at Fonda, N. Y, was fred
by hardened young burglar named Csf-
| ferty, who secured some matches in tobac-
co, tore hole in The plaster, stuffed In
! straw, and ignted it. Twenty five prison.
| ers were safely removed TO the courthouse.
but the jail was totally destroyed. The in
| cendiary has been placed in irons to await
| trial for arson.
CHOLERA is epidemic in kotta Rsdi:,,
Borneo, ard in Atchin. sumatra.