St. Landry democrat., 1882-09-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

A MYSTERIOUS malady has appeared
| in railway camp near San Francisco, Cal.
Many of the officers and laborers have been
Frustrated. 1t is attributed to bad tea.
HALF of the village of Grand Meadow,
Mimi, has been fired by tramps. Business
is entirely suspended there till the insurance
adjusters make their investigation.
ARUMoR got atloat at Chattanooga
that the Taylor brothers, who murdered
Sheriff Cate and his deputy, had been placed
in the jail, the other night, and 4 crowd of
five thousand persons gathered and de-
manded the prisoners, for whose capture
rewards Of $4,000 had been offered. A
committee OF five was allowed to enter the
Jail and see that the Taylors were not there.
DUPLICATE letters from Rangoon,
one dispatched by way of the Suez Canal
and the other via San Francisco, reached a
New York clergyman in the same mail.
THE Mexican National Railway has
been accepted by the government engineers.
THE damage by the recent floods in
Italy and Austria amounts to 2,000,0GJ
forms. Trent and Verona were submerged,
and many bridges were swept away.
SECRETARY TELLER has decided that
Indian Police may be furnished with re-
voIvers for the better enforcement of their
duties. No rifles, however, will be al
lowed the Indians.
RIVAL base-ballers batted each other
at Bordentown, n. j., the other afternoon.
Several were seriously injured and others
were locked up.
MAJOR PHrPPs, the defaulting Super
intendent OF the Philadelphia (pa.) Aims
house, has been arrested in Canada. His
wife was with him, and he was passing I'M
der the name of j. D. Thompson. An in
dictment for forgery awaits him.
WHILE E. G. Vincent, of Waterville,
Me-, was mapping undera tree in Brooklyn,
N. Y, the other day, hungry goat came
along and chewed up SlG5 in greenbacks
protruding from pocket.
THE Dominion Government sends
out notice that American militia desiring to
make excursions into Canada must file their
applications with the Secretary of War at
Washington, to be forwarded through the
British Minister to the Governor General.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, has just sent 81, 800
to yellow-fever sufferers at Pensacola, Fla.
In the Circuit Court at Detroit, Mich,
the other day, in presence of one hundred
members of the bar, the assistant prosecut-
ing attorney read petition for the disbar.
ring Of Charles r. Ford on charges OF mis-
demeanor, attempting to pass forged notes,
malpractice, and bad character generally.
He once served three years in State Prison.
Judge Jennison gave him three weeks to
answer the charges.
A COMET about five degrees from the
sun was plainly visible to the eye at
Georgetown and Central City, Colorado, the
other afternoon.
TWENTY miners were killed by an
explosion of fire damp in Germany.
Two companies of infantry have been
ordered from Forts Omaha and Sidney to
Salt Lake, giving rise to a rlmor that trouble
with the Mormons is expected during the
approaching election.
ALFRED ROGERS, of Philadelphia.
transfer clerk OF the Insurance Company OF
North America, is said to have obtained
s23,0o6 by raising certificates of stock and
borrowing money upon them, wasting the
proceeds in mining stock spectla,ions
The Merchants and Pacific hotels.
Red Cliff, Colo, and thirteen other buildings
burned the other night.