St. Landry democrat., 1883-07-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT Damlela. ESy pb, oh tio ioeii oiiS e
occurred forty-nine deaths from cholera; at
Samanoud, seventeen; at Mansurah, one
hundred and one. Fifty Europeans had
died at Damieta from cholera since the out
break of the disease.
DURING the third quarter of the last
fiscal year the receipts of the Post-offlce
Department were S1,119,s77 greater than
the Expenditures For the nine months end !
ed March 30 the surplus was - ,5os, AZ
j. j. ALLEY, a clerk in the Pension
Bureau at Washington, and a pension
agent named JIG. Aellmett were arrested
the other day on a charge OF defraud1ng
pensioners.
The Treasury Department at Wash
ington in two days, the 9th and 10th, issued
warrants for $l4, 100000 ON account of PEN
sions for the fiscal year ending june 81,
1884.
LATE intelligence from Hue, the cap
ital of AMMAN, said the French Consul at
that place had been insulted and attacked
on the public street.
THERE were eighty-seven deaths from
cholera at Mansurah, Egypt, on the 9TH,
seven at Samanoud and two at Shirbin.
THE National Educational Associa-
toms department Of normal schools held
sessions at Saratoga, N. Y, on the 10th.
| Prof. Edwin C. Hewitt. of Normal. ILL.,,
delivered the opening address.
/ EIGHTY bodies had been recovered on
| the 18th from the steamer Daphne, which
sank in the Clyde at Glasgow, Scotland,
recently.
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES GRESHAM the
other day decided it was proper for the
Civil-service Commissioners to commune
cate directly with subordinates in local
| post-offices, notwithstanding the postmas
/ ter at Baltimore, Nd, objected to it.
Sc One THOUSAND uniformed knights
were in attendance on the session OF the
Supreme Temple Of the Patriarch Circle of
the Odd-Fellows' order in Chicago, Ill, on
the 18th.
The meeting of delegates from Wes-
tern cities, held at the Southern Hotel, st.
/ Louis, Mo-, ON the 18th, in the interest of
river improvement, adopted a resolution to
call convention not later than November
4 90.
CHIEF AUDITOR MORRILL, and three
clerks were indicted the other day for en-
bezzling funds of the Philadelphia (Pa.)
! gas trust.
CESS, the pitcher Of the Fort Wayne
1nd.) Base ball Club, has been suspended,
charged with throwing game.
AS result of the investigation of the
defalcations of clerk in the New York
Comptroller's office, the Board OF Alder
men has adopted resolution declaring
the systemtof accounting insufficient.
BURGLARS at Franklin, N. Y, entered
a bank the other night, and after two hours
work blew open the safe only to find that
the money was in another vault.
! The British Government has arrived
q at an agreement with De Lesseps relative
! to construction of the second Suez canal
which is to be finished in 1888.
In Bridgeport, CoRn., q few days
ago two Salvation army officers were ar
rested and held in bond not to parade
or hold street meetings.
s The United Statss steamer Wanda.
liza. from the West Indies, was quarantineG
ct Norfolk, Va, on the 1ith to await devel
opments in case of sickness on board
which might prove to be yellow fever.
81 WRIGHT M. NALBR1TToN, the Memphi.
4 lTenn.) monster who it is alleged tortured
4 his step-son by holding him against no
stove, was indicted the other day by thu
Grand Jury in that city.