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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-09-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The National Liberal League met in
Milwaukee on the 21st.
A PHILADELPHIA & READING coal
train was wrecked near Rogers Ford, Pa,
On the 21st.
FURTHER disturbances were reported
near Agram, Hungary, on the Goth. The
soldiers killed ten rioters.
O'DoNNELL is becoming disguised
because no steps have been taken to pro-
vide for his defense.
The Louisville Convention adopted a
resolution favoring Federal aid to educa-
ton.
BURGLARS blew open two safes in Mil
waukee on the morning of the Dist, secur-
ing about $3.50.
NINE hundred and fifty-two invita-
tions for the Governor Generals ball at
Ottawa, Ont, on the 21st were accepted
The French Prime Minister Ferry has
asked for English mediation in case nego-
tiations with China fail.
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT HILL pub
fishes detailed reply to the report of the
Investigating Committee.
f. B. THURBER of the Anti Monop-
oily league testified before the Senate Labor
Committee on the Dist.
AT Lakeland, Ohio, on the 21st,
Philip Kuhn, a canal boatman, killed a ne
gro named Ezekiel Lee with blow of his
AT banquet following the grand
military review in Austria, on the 21st,
King Alfonso occupied the seat of honor.
The Chinese people demand that the
Empress, who does not seem to be energetic
enough to suit the popular demand, shall
abdicate in favor of Prince Tun, uncle of
the Emperor.
A COMMITTEE of the Lancashire
operatives appeal to the trades unionists of
Great Britain for assistance for the stfk-
ing weavers. Ten thousand weavers are
idle. tx
A FARMER named Fitzpatrick was
shot and seriously wounded in Clonmore,
Ireland, on the 21st. It was an agrarian
outrage. Two arrests were made.
Mrs. MARY McGouGH recovered .
vagdict in the Kings County IN. Y.) Court,
General Term, ON the Dist, for 5000 dam
ages for the loss OF her husband, who was
killed by the Long Island Railroad i'll
March, 1870.
A BELT of woods near Great Falls, n.
H., was on fire on che 2lst. People were
fighting the flames. There is great scarcity
of water there.
ZAcHARIAH /. SNYDER was found
guilty of murder in the first degree at Yer
non Ind, on the 2Ist, and was sentenced
to death. He participated iii the killing of
John Van Wy, August Il, for eighteen dol
lars.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-09-29

A CIRCULAR has been issued by the
Diamond Match Company making fifty
per cent. reduction in the wholesale price
OF matches.
| ACCORDING to a recent ruling by Sec
! rotary Teller settler under the Oregon
donation act of 1850 does not forfeit his
right to land by failure to file notice under
! the act of 1858.
On the goth death from cholera was
| reported in Sligo, ireland.
THERE were sixteen cases of fever
under treatment at Pensacola Navy Yard
on the Goth.
A REGIMENT of infantry has been
ordered to reinforce the st. Petersburg
police.
The relations of Germany and Tur-
key have recently become very cordial.
ACCORDING to the annual report of
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company,
| the net earnings were $2,51S,5S9.
The demands upon the Post-office
| Department by Postmasters for new two
! cent stamps are so large that the contract
ors are unable to supply them, and the De-
partment consequently is reducing amounts
called for in acquisitions.
The proposals of the French Govern
ment on the Tonquin question were not re-
ceived with favor at Pekin.
| APPRECIATING the fact that the
American Consul maintained conciliatory
attitude, the Chinese Viceroy at Canton
has assured him that a prompt arrange
ment of American claims would be made.
ANOTHER check has been given the
French in Tonquin, the s'Yellow Flags"
their allies, being disastrously repulsed
near Hal Phong.
On the Goth the U. S. steamer Yam
tic left st. Johns, n. F., for New York.
The Melbourne, Australia, newspa-
pers express dissatisfaction with Lord
Derby's dispatch condemning the proposed
annexation of the South Pacific Islands to
Australia.
The railway managers west of the
Missouri opened a conference in San Fran
cisco, Cal, on the Goth.
AT the Louisville Educational Con-
vention twenty-three States and the Dis
trict of Columbia were represented.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted by the
Kentucky Conference of the NJ. E. Church
South, opposing Sunday trains to camp
meeting. s3&
Four THOUSAND people had been
stricken down with yellow fever in Mazat-
Ian, Mexico. Refugees from Guaymas
were reported dying in the interior.
CONTIGUOUS forest fires were threat
ening the village of Bar Harbor, Me-, with
destruction, and on the Goth three hun
dred men were vigorously fighting the
flames.
The hop crop of Canada presents
discouraging aspect, and viii fall consider
ably short of last season.
ACTIVE measures are being taken by
the Egyptian Government for the suppress
sion of the slave trade. The police recently
captured $50 slaves at Ascot and arrested
the chief SLAYER at Cairo.
a STRIKE was inaugurated on the goth
by the window-glass workers of Pittsburgh,
Pa, against reduction of wages.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-09-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

| ONE battalion of the foreign legion
and two battalion Of native sharp-shooters,
| from Africa, start for Tonquin immedi.
ately. On their arrival the forces there
| will exceed the number of troops asked for
| by General Bonet.
THE Cigar-makers' International I'm
| ion, President Strasser, of New York, in
the chair, commenced its annual session at
| Toronto, Ont, on the 18th.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
| men commenced it's annual session at Don.
| yer, Col, on the 18th.
RECENT cool rains have checked the
spread of fever at Guaymas, Mexico.
ACCORDING to reports from across the
border, depredations by Apaches still con.
tinue in Mexico.
Ar Springfield, Mass, the bicycle
tournament wound up on the 10Th with a
parade mile long, viewed by fifty thou.
sand people.
The weavers' strike at Ashton-under-
Tyne will continue another month.
On the 18th the Interstate Educa-
tional Convention met at Louisville, KY,
twenty three States being represented.
ACCORDING to recent advices from
Calcutta the French outrages in Madagas-
ear were far worse than at first reported. +
Two new cases of yellow fever were
reported at the Pensacola Navy Yard on
the 10Th.
ON the 10Th three hundred and thirty
sailors left Brest for Toulon, whence they
- u f1,,
feet in Tonquin.
DISPATCHES from Vienna of the 10Th
say that while the troubles in Crotia were
decreasing, the agitation was spreading to
Dalmatia.
THE tenth annual session of the Ma
began at Cleveland, o., on the 10Th. The
attendance was large.
In the competitive drill at the Louis
vile Exposition on the 10Th, Tancres Di-
vision, Columbus, KS, knights of 2ythias,
won the first prize, Springfield TO- Divis-
ion the second prize. Commander j. H.
Abbott won the prize of gold jewel for
best Commander. In the band contest the
prize for best band was won by Big Six
band, oprlngneld, y.
The Illinois Annual Conference of the
M. E. Church began it's sixtieth session at
Danville on the 10Th.
On the 18th the International North
ern Telegraph Company filed its certificate
of Incorporation in New York. The capital
stock is S., 100000.
The reunion of the United States Mil
itary Telegraph Corps INDUCED in ban
quet at Chicago on the 10Th.
The Board Of Supervisors of Milwau-
kee forgot that some bonds were falling
due and now they have to take the money
saved up for Courthouse to pay them.
ON the goth the witnesses in the
O'Donnell case arrived at Funchal, Ma
deria.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-09-29

On the 18th three men entered the
house of Washington Odell near Ridgeway
Va, shot Odell and threatened to kill his
| wife If she did not give up the money in the
house. She refused and the men forcibly
took $1,000.
On the morning of the 18th, at Ash
land, O., a freight train ran into another
freight, smashing a locomotive, telescoping
caboose and demdiishing car, and kill.
ing lot Of fine blooded cattle just from
Scotland and on their way to Kansas.
WHILE at work on barn belongin 9
to August Belmont, at Babylon, L. l., on
the 18th scaffold gave way with five men
two of whom were fatally injured.
On the 18th Rev. James Kemlo, of
Newark, N. T., stabbed his wife, cut his own
throat and jumped out of a fourth-story
window. BoM were fatally injured.
r. & II. ADAMS silk and cotton mills
were destroyed by fire during the firemen's
parade at Paterson, N. j., on the 18th.
Loss 600; fully insured.
On the evening of the 18th New York
had fire which destroyed nearly million
dollars worth of property.
BENSON, Arizona, was nearly de-
stroyed by fire the morning of the 10Th.
FIRE destroyed the Enterprise Car
riage Company's works at Cincinnati on
the 10Th. Loss, $4,000.
By fall from buggy General Nc
Dowell was seriously injured at San Fran
cisco on the 18th.
AT Scranton, Pa, the Fairlawn mine
breaker was burned by an incendiary fire
on the 10Th. Loss, $4,000. Five hundred
men and boys were thrown out of employ
ment.
FIRE destroyed the furniture factory
of Nelson Lyons, Albany, N. Y, ON the
Doth. Loss, $4,000.
ON the Goth the Italian bark Fratelli
Gaggino, bound for Darien, and an un-
known vessel collided. Both foundered
and sank.
REPORTS of wrecks and disaster in
the storm on the banks of Newfoundland
continue to come in.
By the explosion of boiler at the
Sligo Iron Works, Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
Goth, fifteen men were probably fatally in
jured.
As the result of an explosion of fire.
damp in mine near Unna, Westphalia, on
the Goth, fifteen miners were killed.
FIRE destroyed the tannery of G. N.
Bur & Co., near Elmira, N. Y, on the Goth.
Loss, $4,000.
On the Goth the wife OF Adam fischer,
who died suddenly September s, near Gin
cinnati, was arrested charged with poison
ing him.
IT was reported on the Goth that Tax
Collector T. j. Britton, of Hall County, Al
ALBANIA, was defaulter for $4,000.
On the morning of the goth J. L.
Cargill's elevator at Portland, D. T., con-
tanning 10000 bushels of wheat, was de-
stroyed by fire. heavy shower at the
time saved the town. Loss 10000 to $780,
600; building insured.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-09-29
: A Daring Dash for Liberty.

Ell HELENA, MONT, Sept. 20.
Last evening when the turnkey went into
the cage to lock five prisoners up in their
cells for the night they sprang upon him,
hurled him on the floor and rushed out of
the cage. At the door they met Con Nc
Ginley,a guard, and, Selling him, used him
as shield against the bullets of Deputy
Sheriff Steele, who was standing near by
with pistol in hand. The five men managed
to get outside without getting hurt. Steele
chased them up the alley toward Rodney
street, firing at them in the dark at every
Jump. When Rodney street was reached
three surrendered, and were turned over to
the bystanders. A fourth was chased sew
eral blocks before he was overtaken. The
fifth, Charles, Cooper, got away and has
not been recaptured.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-09-29
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the 18th 8 Boston elevator fell
with three persons, two being fatally hurt,
but the elevator boy flew through a door
and escaped injury.
On the New York & New England
Road two freight trains collided near Viii.
liamatic, Conn, on the 18th, wrecking two
engines and eleven cars of merchandise.
A DISPATCH from Halifax, N. S., Of
the 18th, says the bark Britannia was lost
on Sable Island, and the Captains wife,
three children and eight of the crew were
drowned, including the first and second
mates. The Captain and remaining three
seamen arrived in Newfeld. The survivors
were three days on the wreck when res
cued.s
AN unknown young man, who said
he was on his way from Indianapolis to
Dayton, was run over by the cars at Co
lumbus, o., on the 18th, and killed. There
was nothing on his person by which to
identify him.
: The murderer Mosher who killed q
feamster near Cheyenne, w. T., few days
ego, was lynched on the 18th.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-09-29
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

EVSVBo bbOBBb
PERSONAL. AND POLITICAI,
On the 18th Marquis Tseng had a
conference with Jules Ferry, President OF
the French Cabinet.
On the 18th McDermott, the Irish
American charged with completely in the
Liverpool dynamite plots, was discharged.
The concurrent resolution of the
Pennsylvania Legislature stopping the pay
of members after September 10 has been
vetoed by Governor Pattison.
On the 18th Capt. Hanna and two
seamen of the foundered barge Oakland
were picked up on Lake Erie, having been
in the water more than twenty-four hours.
PRINCE BIsMARCK's wife was re-
ported seriously ill at Gastien on the 18th.
The Republicans of the Sixth Con-
Igressional District Of Iowa have nominated
DE-. Fl. Stiles, Of Ottunwa, to fill the unex-
pired term of M. E. Cults, deceased.
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL GRESHAM pro-
poses to visit all the principal post-offices,
learn their needs and the needs of the SER
vice generally, and write his own report to
Congress.
BEFORE the Senate committee on the
18th Lille Devereaux advocated the estab-
lishment of matronships in all penal insti-
buttons and State reformatories for girls.
ON the night of the 18th Charles and
Bob Ford were Kissed and hooted from the
stage of variety theater in Louisville,
Ky.
On the 18th Colonel Clibborn, of the
Salvation Amy, was expelled from Cen
eva, Switzerland. Miss Booth is impris-
oned at Neufchatel for violating the order
prohibiting Salvation meetings.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has directed that
Cadet Arthur L. Beebe, fourth-class United
States Military Academy, be dismissed for
hazing.
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT HILL re-
signed on the 18th.
GENERAL CoURBET has been assigned
to the command Of the French troops in
Tonquin.
GENERAL Jos. B. CARR was nomi-
mated by the New York Republican Con-
lvention, held at Richfeld Springs on the
10th, for Secretary Of State by a unanimous
vote. 55f
Mrs. EDWIN ADAMS, widow of the fa-
mous actor, is at Long Branch dying of
paralysis.
The Massachusetts, Republicans NOM
mated George D. Robinson for Governor
and Oliver Ames for Lieutenant Governor
on the 18th.
The Greenbackers Of Maine indorse
the Chicago platform and declare their OPP
position to fusion with either Republicans
or Democrats. 3a5sss. s.
The late Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston,
Mass, disposes by his will of property val
ued at $4,000, 900, most of which goes to
relatives and friends.
On the 10Th Hon. William Faxon, As
sistant Secretary dhe Navy under Gideon
Wells, died suddenly of heart disease at
Hartford, Conn.
NAVAL CADET JAMES r. TUGGLE, of
kentucky, has bean dismissed from the
Academy for hazing.
The Emperor, King Alfonso, Prince
Milan and the Duke of Edinburgh were
present at the closing of the Austrian army
maneuvers on the 18th.
ROBERT M. MCLEAN was nominated
for Governor by the Maryland Democratic
State Convention, which met at Baltimore
on the 18th.
ON the Goth the monument erected
Thy the State of Kentucky to General Zach.
airy Taylor was dedicated.
!, PRESIDENT ARTHUR is the guest of
Seth Barton French at Newport, r. l., who
gave grand dinner in his honor on the
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-03-28
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-03-28

kENNEBEC COCSTT.-In Court Of Probate,
held of Augmsfa, on the second Monday Of March,
1888.
LNLLEN NJ. MARSH, widow of I.aac y. Marsh
IL late of Windsor. in said County, deceased,
having presented her application for allow ance out
CT the personal estate OF said deceased:
ORDERED, That Eotice thereof be given three
weeks successively,in the kennebec journal. print
ed in Augusta in said County, that all persons
es.ed may attend at Probate Court to be held
at Augusta. on the second Monday OF April next,
and show cause ii any they have, why the prayer
of said petition should not oe granted.
EMERY q. BEAN, Judge.
Attest Howard OWEN Register.
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-03-28

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That the subscri
IN Der has been duly appointed Executor
Of the last will and testament of
JOHN BURNS, late Of Chelsea,
in the County of kennebec, deceased, testate, and
has undertaken that trust BY giving bond the Law
directs: All persons, therefore, having demands
hibit the same for settlement; and all indebted to
eaid estate requested to make Immediate payment
70 BDwlN II. BLANCHARD.
Mar. 10, les. 3vuP
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-03-28
Otherwise should try hard to leave it for

the second time"
Other evenings followed. each pleasant
er than the last. There was the sweetest
atmosphere about the mother ana daugh-
ters, Alex thought; they were so cordial.
30 intelligent, so unaffectedly fond of one
another. Little by little he gathered the
facts of their history, not from any formal
revelation. but by chance hints and casual
illusions. Mrs. Ashurst, as he conjec-
tured. had been left slenderly provided
for on her husbands death, and with
far sighted wisdom had used her lit
tie capital in giving her girls first
rate education in Europe. with a
view to their becoming tearhers. They
had but lately returned. and were not yet
thoroughly at home in their own country :;
but already Miss Ashurst was instructing
large classes in French and German. and
Amy giving music lessons to a number Of
pupils. Their evenings they kept free for
the enjoyment OF each other and of the
little home which they so valued: and en-
tering into the spirit of this life. so brave
ly busy. yet SO tran4Ailly content. Alex
realized for the first time what the charm
OF home may be, where each inmate has
independent occupation, but where all in
terests are shared and united as only they
can be in those homes where love is lord
and king.
He dined duly with ..the other Ash
ursts. and duly paid his digestion visit. "
but there the acquaintance rested. The
insipidity of fashionable intercourse struck
him SO keenly. as contrasted with the do
mestic life he had just learned to under
stand; the elaborate graces taught in
worldly schools seemed SO poor and shall
low compared with 1.-THE mind. the music,
breathing in the face'' of Amy. that !.
struck him as sheer waste of time to de-
vote his hours to them.
"who would care for doll, though its clothes were
of lace.
And its peticoats trimmed in the fa.hion?''
He hummed to himself. as he walked
home after his second call at 1914; and
henceforward he gave himself up with
heart and soul to the cultivation of his
''happy accident"
Uncle Nat was grievously disappointed
when his favorite nephew. after stay in
Philadelphia So prolonged as to justify his
most sanguine hopes, wrote to announce
his engagement to an entirely wrong Miss
Ashurst. "A girl without penny. sir.
give you my word" and it was long be-
fore the old gentleman could forgive the
outrage. He never did forgive it in fact,
till Mrs. Alexander Ashe came to Boston
in propria persona, and then she made
such q conquest of Uncle Nat as lett him
nothing to say in his own justification or
to the reproach of his nephew. He lived
to thank Heaven for his own bad hand
writing.
For" as he explained. .'if the tails of
my IS had been one whit less indistinct
than they are. you would never gone
astray in Thirteenth street that night my
boy. and we never should have had this
little jewel Of ours for our own, and sad
thing that would have been for US all
hey, now wouldn't it? ?'
To which Alex Ashe replied, with en-
phasis, Rather
Advice to COnsumptfves.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-03-28
Advice to Consumptfves.

On the appearance OF the first symptoms
as general debility, loss of appetite, pallor.
chilly sensations, followed bv night sweats
and cough. prompt measures of relief should
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-03-28

For Portland and way, s.45 and 1928 P. n.
For Eanceboro and way, 12.45 and 40 p ii
Due from Boston and way, 1882 and 40 +. M,
One from Vanceboro and way, s25 and Il. .O5 p. NJ
Through tickets to California and all points south
and west may be had of +. II. Walker ticket agent,
Augusta, the only Office selling via all routes and
checking baggage free of expense.
PAYsON TUCKER. Gien,l supt.
+. +. BOOTHBY. Gen.. Pass and T'kt Ag't.
fortIanu, Oct. 18th. lsS:.
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KENyEBEc coUyTY-fn Probate Court,
oct3teod&w1yeow

KENNEBEC COUNTY-m Probate Court at
Smgxsfa, the second Monday Of Mrca,
1888:
A CERTAIN INSTRUMENT, purporting TO be
IA the last will and testament Of Betsey MOODY,
late Of West Waterville, in said county, deceased
having been presented for probate:
ORDERED. That notice thereof be given three
weeks successfully prior to the second Monday OF
April next, in the knnebec journal, q news
paper printed In Augusta, that all persons interested
may attend st Court of Probate then to be holden
at Augusta, and show cause, If any. why the said
instrument should not be proved, approved and al.
lowed, as the last will and testament Of the said
deceased.
EMERY o. BEAN, Judge.
Attest .-HowARD OWEN, Register. aWfSs
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-03-28
Ntfu AnherttsfutentS.
VARIOUS QUACKS.

Whc-Eaeh with his own ret
Cu,,,x.,es the Field Of Human Nature.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-03-28
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