St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-08-04
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MISCELLANEOUS.
IT was reported on the 23d that seven.
ty-five deaths from fux had occurred al
Byhalia, Waterford and Victoria, Miss.
three small towns adjacent to each Other
and short distance south of Memphis
Tenn.
NEW ORLEANS Ua.) commercial or
CARNATIONS have called on the Governors
Of Mississippi and Louisiana to take strin.
gent measures against yellow fever.
CHOLERA had broken out among the
British troops at Suez, Egypt, on the oath.
The death list during the twenty-four hours
ended at eight O'Clock on that morning was
four hundred and sixty-three deaths at
Cairo, twenty-three at Fitch, sixteen at
surah, one hundred and seventeen at Chi
bin, forty three at Mehallit, ninety-tAree at
Ghizeh and seven at Cheban.
AT Pittsfeld, Mass, on the oath EN-
erson Watson was placed on trial for man.
slaughter and criminal negligence in caus-
ing the death of eight men in a collision on
the Troy & Boston Railroad, on which he
was engineer. The court ruled that the
prosecution must proceed under the com
mon law, which necesSitates that malice be
proved.
THE exchanges at twenty-three lead
ing clearinghouse in the United States
for the week ended on the 21st were 81 ,O07,-
sc, 455, against $925, Al, 720 the week previ-
ous, indicating an increase in general
trade throughout the country.
A DESPERATE prize fight was broken
up at Nanticoke, Pa, the other evening by
a crowd of women who invaded the arena
brandishing knives and revolvers.
WATSON, the Troy & Boston engineer
on trial at Pittsfeld, Mass, for man
slaughter for carelessness resulting in a
fatal collision, was acquitted under in
structions of the court.
RICHARD O'CosNoR, a Chicago 0ll.)
private watchman the other night shot
and mortally wounded boy thirteen
years old because he was prowling around
a watermelon car. O'Connor Yves locked up.
A DISPATCH from Washington on the
25th said the steamship Audain, with yell
low fever, had arrived at Newport News,
Va, and had been ordered below to the
quarantine station. All foreign vessels
entering the capes would be stopped if
there was sickness on board.
A BAD case of pension fraud was
nipped in the bud at Philadelphia, Pa, the
other day. Two men and woman secured
1,7S5, but quarreled about the divide and
were all locked up.
The French Government has asked
the Chamber to vote $1,000 francs for a
scientific expedition to investigate cholera
in Egypt. Deaths at Cairo on the 18th
were nearly 300, and at other places the
epidemic ragged unchecked.
c. E.. FULLER, of Philadelphia, Pa,
has begun five suits for damages against
the Western. Union Telegraph Company
for refusing to transmit messages under
the ordinary printed conditions.
The Sioux Indians held their annual
sun dance at Rosebud Agency the other
afternoon, ten thousand being present from
all parts Of the reservation. The Govern
ment had given orders to suppress the
barbarous practice, but the agents were
powerless.
OFFICERS of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul Road report the grain crop along
its lines west of the Mississippi in excellent
condition, with the exception of some
narrow belts in Dakota, where the hail beat
down the stalks.
The reunion Of John Morgan's men
at Lexington, KY, was addressed by
large number of prominent Confederates
on the 25th. 9
MI. A. DAUPHIN, of the Louisiana Lot
terry Company, has brought suit at Wash
ington against Walter @. Gresham, Post
General, for 100000 damages sus-
tanned by his rece1s order forbidding the
use of the mails by that company.
II is stated that under large tree in
Llano County, Tex, was recently found
carriage with the skeletons of three adults
and two children. The belief prevailed
chat they were English tourists, and were
struck by lightning at least year ago.
COLONEL j. M. KING recently sold q
ranch near San Antonio, Tex.
70 an association Of British CAPITALISTS for
B, COG, 600.
AS result of a compromise arranged |
! day or two before the American Rapid
Telegraph Company had a full force of op-
orators on the 10Th. There were renewed
.umors Of q compromise with the Balti-
more and Ohio Company. The Western
Union Company said its attitude was un.
changed, and that the characterization con
delivery would probably be discontinued |
n day or two. The strikers were as full |
# defiance as on the first day