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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-19
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. JESSE r. GRANT, mother OF ex-
President Grant, died at Jersey City, n. j.,
on the 18th.
A DISPATCH from Hermosillo on the
18th indicated that the Mexican troops had
fight with the Apaches in q mountain
stronghold, killing eleven and putting the
savages to flight. Five soldiers were killed
and eight wounded.
SECRETARY TELLER has recommends
ed that suit be begun against the Union
Pacific Railroad, to determine the trre
meaning of the net earnings clause OF the
Thurman act.
EDWARD O'BRIEN and Thos. Doyle
pleaded guilty to charges of murder and
conspiracy in Dublin, Ireland, on the 10th.
The Prince of Wales, Duke of Rich
mond and Archbishop of Canterbury will
officiate at the opening of the international
Fisheries Exhibition at London, Eng.
PAUL STRoBACH. United States Mar
shall for the Southern District of Alabama,
has been indicted at Montgomery for pre-
senting fraudulent accounts.
In reply to resolution censuring the
British Governments course in regard to
the Cubans taken by the Spanish authori-
ties at Gibraltar, Sir Charles Dixie denied
that England had a right to demand re-
turn of the prisoners.
The Liverpool (Eng.) dynamite de-
PENDANTS were remanded for another week
on the 18th. The London defendants were
committed for trial.
A BREWER and an undertaken fought
duel with broadswords near Chicago, ILL.,,
the other day, the former being wounded.
ANNOUNCEMENT has been made OF
the. failure of Henry z. White, dealer in
straw goods, New York, with liabilities of
| $50, 900; assets, 500, 900.
CuIEF-J JUSTICE BECK, of the Colorado
Supreme Court, has decided the act inop-
erative under which Packer, the San Juan
ghoul, and seven other murderers were
convicted. All would be Immediately re-
leased.
TEwF1K FAsHA, the new Turkish Min
ister. presented his credentials on the 18th
at Washington.
MATTHIAS BRADY has been arrested
for threatening the foreman Of the jury
which convicted his brother in Dublin, Ire
land.
ANDREW j.. SMITH, President Of the
Manhattan Insurance Company, New
York, has been arrested on charge Of
perjury.
MORE than 3,40o emigrants sailed
from Queenstown for America during the
week ended on the 10Th inst.
THE business failures for the seven
DAYS ended ON tue lin numbered 1o6, as
compared with 152 last week. Inc w estern
States had forty-hve.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-19
Abject Poverty and Suffering in Ireland.

WASHINGTON, May9.
As resultof inquiries made at the State
Department, it has been learned that the
subject Of Governor Buffers recent letter to
Secretary Foger-namely. pauper ilnmigra-
ton from Ireland, has for some months
been under consideration in that depart
ment. A nu1nber of reports relating thereto
have been received, and among the most
interesting Is one from Consul General
Merritt, of London. giving the results of an
investigation made at his request in March
last by United State Consuls in Ireland.
Tie Consuls generally agree that the dis
fress prevailing at present is not exceptional
in its character, and that published
accounts to the contrary are exag-
geratrd In the poorer agricultural
districts the situation Of the peasantry is
miserable- ard abject poverty is the rule,
but, sad as it is it has been the same
for years and has become the normal condi-
ton of life. 1t may be safely assumed that
the much talKed-of starvation point has
not been reached, however bad the situation
may be, and that local and Government
authorities have abundant means to relieve
actual necessity. The prospects of the
ameliolation 5f thc present condition III the
imn ediate future are most disrouraging.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-19
MATTERS in Ecuador were reported

MATTERS in Ecuador were reported
critical on the 9th. Guayaquil Yves in the
possession of armed troops and business
was suspended. The Government had
seized the funds in the Bank of Ecuador.
IT is estimated at the Post-of1ice De-
partment that under the recent change in
computing the commission of fourth-class
postmasters an expenditure of 100000
more than required under the old law will
be necessary to settle accounts of fourth
class offices up to October 1,when the two
cent law goes into operation.
The May report on crop prospects
indicate falling off of II 100000 bushels in
the winter wheat yield.
DIR. THOMAS GALLAGHER, Bernard
Gallagher, Alfred Whitehead, William
Ansburgh, John Curtin, Henry Wilson and
Dalton, the dynamite conspiracy prison
ers, had further hearing at London, Eng,
ON the 10th.
TROOPS have been ordered from AL
dershot to Curragh Camp, in Ireland.
Rev. w. w. MCLANE, Presbyterian
minister at Steubenville, O., has been sus-
pended for heresy.
VIGILANCE committees were forming
at Lawrenceville, Pa, wealthy suburb
of Pittsburgh, the other day, to put stop
to incendiarism, sixteen barns having been
burned within two months.
THREE Mexican generals were placed
under arrest for twenty-four hours on the
10th for failing to take part in celebrating
the national holiday.
THE second trial of the Malfoy dam
age suit against the New York Herald has
resulted in verdict for plaintiff for $4,000.
In the first trial the verdict was fer $40, 600.
HENRY j. MARRIOTT and Marie
Pereux, arrested in New York recently for
the larcency of $4,000 worth of diamonds
from Paris (France) jeweler, were mar
ried in court on the 10th.
COMPTROLLER KNOX reports the num-
Der of National Banks which have been or
ganized during the six months ended May
to be 1872, with capital of 4,95s,5eO. Of
these banks seventy, having a capital of
So, 100000, were located in the Western
States.
THE bishops of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church were in conference at Pitts
1SSc1uiys Oil oiAC oASAoAoAA
of work for the ensuing six months.
THE New York World has been sold
by Jay Gould to Joseph Pulitzer, of st.
Louis, Mo-, for 100000. The World will
continue to be Democratic in politics. The
new proprietor assumed control of the
newspaper on the 10th.
A TORNADO caused extensive damage
to farms in the vicinity of the town of Rock,
Rock County, Wis, on the 10th. The storm
was about forty rods wide, and Travelled
two or three miles without lifting.
AT Loudon. Tenn, on the 10th, the
trial of Andy Taylor was closed by the jury
returning verdict of guilty of murder in
the first degree and he was sentenced to
death. The prisoner was one of the Taylor
brothers who last fall boarded train on
the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Railroad, killed Sheriff Cate, of Hamilton
County, Tenn, and his deputy, John Con-
way, and rescued John Taylor, who was
being conveyed to Knoxville for trial.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-19
Romantic.
MONTREAL, May 8

MONTREAL, May ..
Thirty years ago the parents of a boy
named Demers, nine years old, died, and
lett him under the care of his mothers
brother, named Durand, a hotel-keeper here.
In short TIME the lad mysteriously disap-
peared, and all inquiries failed to give the
slightest trace OF what became Of him. He
was given UP as lost until Saturday last,
when lnasl Of dark complexion and
middle aye :entered Durand's Hotel and
made the disclosure that he is the
representative of the missing boy.
He has given such absolute proofs OF
identity as to; satisfy his uncle. His history
as given by himself is like a romance. he
declares thatwhile returning from store
he was sent to on an errand he was Kid
naped by an American planter from Ten
nessee, who took him there aud made him
work with the slaves until the war broke
out, when he joined the Confederate army
and made the full campaign. Since the war
ended, he says, he has been acting as a
trader in the.South. It is strange story,
but his relatives seem to place implicit con-
fidence in it. The uncle is wealthy and has
no family.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-19

Two lives were lost by the burning of
a dwelling in West Madison street, Balti-
more, Nd, the other morning, John F. Adj
ans, aged eighty-three, and acolored cook
being suffocated and burned while in bed.
A colored chambermaid leaped from a
thirds window, broke one of her ribs
and received other internal injuries.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-19
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


third trial of Timothy Kelly, charged with
participation in the murder of Cavendish
and Burke, was concluded. The jury found
verdict Of guilty against the prisoner and
hewas sentenced to be hanged July 8.
By the burning of Grimes & Co. s
mill at Vermontville, ten miles north Of
Charlotte, Mich, the other morning, two or
three men, including the proprietor, were
burned to death.
The Union Depot at Cedar Rapids,
To-, was struck by lightning the other after
noon end fired, the flames rapidly spread
ing to all parts of the building, but were
subdued before destroying it entirely.
A FIRE at indianapolis, Ind, on the
9Th destroyed the indianapolis Stove
Works, one hotel and seven residences, to-
gether with stables and outbuildings.
Mrs. BRoWNELL undertook to light
her fire with kerosene, at Omaha, Nebr., the
other day, when the can exploded and she
was fatally burned, while her four small
children were rescued with difficulty by
neighbors.
AN engine, tender and six freight cars
on the Milwaukee & st. Paul Road went
over bridge near Lamoille, Wis, the
other day and Engineer Ferguson was
drowned.
THE Standard Oil Company's works
at Jersey City, N. j., were struck by light
ming on the 10th, and tanks, buildings,
barges, cars and docks were burned. Sew
eral lives were lost and the damage to
property exceeded 81 ,oOo, 900.
By blunder Of e. T. Green, pre-
scription clerk at the City Hospital, St.
Louis, Mo-, the other day, Dan Kelleher,
Amadee Jones and Joseph stattinger were
poisoned with choral. Kelleher and Stat
finger died.
JOSEPH MULLETT was; sentenced to
penal servitude for life on the 10th for con
spiracy to murder Juror Field in Dublin,
Ireland.
DURING q severe storm at La Crosse,
Wis, the other afternoon lightning struck
the house Of James Eagan, severely if not
fatally injuring Mrs. Eagan, and in less
degree her daughter, aged thirteen. At New
York on the same day the sash and blind
factory of Bradley & Currier was struck
and fired, the loss being $4,000. 90 90
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 10th Ward
McConkey was hanged for the murder of
George A. Mcclure in Dead Mans Hollow,
near McKeesport, on the night Of August
2, 1881.
A FRENCH bridegroom was shot by q
Jealous rival while the wedding party was
near the church in Paris few days ago.
The assassin committed suicide.
BURGLARS forced their way into a
private bank at Vassar, Mich, the other
night and carried or $4,1oo in gold and
silver.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-19

The vandalia, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne
& Chicago, and Pittsburgh, Cincinnati q
St. Louis Roads recently adopted new
rule, to take EFFECT June |, that no single
piece of luggage weighing more than TWO
hundred and fifty pounds will be taken 1or
transportation in baggage cars.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-19

The Massachusetts Senate has passed 3
bin for the payment Of one dollar per ton
bounty on heets raised for sugar-niak KING
nf1rpoS1S.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-19

The Supreme Court of Louisiana has az
cided that municipal bonds can not be taxed
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-19
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE meeting of King Humbert OF
Italy and Emperor Francis Joseph Of Aus
tria, which was to have taken place at Ber-
lin this spring. has been postponed until
the 9th of next November.
A MARRIAGE has been arranged be-
tween the hereditary Prince of Anhalt and
the second daughter of the Crown Prince
of Germany.
A CONVENTION of asFree-thinkers of
the United States and Canada is to be held
at Rochester, N. Y, beginning August 20,
and continuing five days.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has
adopted resolution recognizing the abil.
ity, services and integrity of Cakes .Ames,
and asking for like recognition on the part
of Congress.
QUEEN Victoria has returned to
Windsor Castle.
LORD CARLINGFoRD has again re-
fused to urge additional legislation against
the importion of foreign cattle into Eng.
land, but he says strict inspection will be
enforced to keep out Infection.
REAL-ADNIRAL E. r. CALHOUN has
been placed on the retired list of the Navy,
after serving forty-three years, sixteen
years being sea service.
The Spanish municipal elections it is
said were marked by fragrant interfer-
ence at the polls to force the return of
Government partisans.
In the German Reichstag, on the 9Th
inst, Windhorst, the ultramontaine leader,
declared the permanent existence of re-
public in Europe impossible.
The Parnelite members of the Brit
ish Parliament have organized subcom-
mittees on local, foreign and financial
affairs.
The Pennsylvania House Of Repre-
sentatives has passed bill restricting the
manufacture Of explosives.
The Minnesota Republican State Con-
vention has been called to meet at st. Paul
\ June 81 Il
GOVERNOR MCDANIEL, of Georgia,
was inaugurated on the 10th inst.
TREyELYAN stated in the British
Commons on the 10th that the assisted
emigration movement was conducted with
a view to comply with the American rules
prohibiting the landing of paupers.
The anniversary of the death of
Stonewall Jackson was commemorated on
the 10th at Richmond, Va.
CHARLES LYMAN, Chief Clerk in the
Treasurer's Office, has been named as Civil
Service Examiner, vice Keim, whose name
was withdrawn.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23
Cheap Advantages.

The cheap woman manages to enjoy
many of the luxures of life at very
small expense. To be sure there is one
circle wherein she does net penetrate
the aristocracy of intellect. But to the
aristocracy of money she has the entree.
She ingratiates herself into the favor
of the house Of the merchant prince
and all of his household She writes
letters to all the provincial newspapers
that tolerate her embodying enthusiasts
tic descriptions of his carpets and his
hand-painted ceilings. The dado and
the freize enlist her energies. In
sudden burst of confidence she signs
for half the newspaper in which to
describe the embroidery on his window
curtains. The cheap woman is never
fettered in her onward course by the
scruples of refinement and self-respect.
She conceives the chief end of life as
having a good time She inveigles her.
self into her friends opera-boxes and
the use of their carriages. She is seen
everywhere and on all occasions. She
is active in cbarities-with other peo-
pies money. She also accepts count
less Inequalities, and sweetly assures
her hostess that she regrets so much
she is not situated to return it. Her
friendships, or the state of feeling she
designates-and desecrates-by that
name, are the sensational characters
of the day-the people who have GER
tain notoriety that masquerades as
fame. She cultivates the Midases and
the Plutuses and the Mac Sycophats.
She regales herself with their dinners,
and repays their bounty by eloquent
descriptions of their dinner service.
After all, the cheap woman is not to be
envied. Her life is a perpetual bondage
to the hardest of taskmasters. Society,
in its true sense, she knows nothing of;
her intimacy is entirely with Mrs.
Grundy. Yet such is the effrontery of
the cheap woman that she manages to
impose upon numbers of people who
are far finer and better than she, be-
cause of her material sensationalism.
Alas, and the world is full of cheap
women
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23
What Wild Beasts Cost.

The most expensive animal New
orkimporter of wild animals deals in
IS the hippopotamus. A good hippo
potamus is worth Ito a man who
wants him) from $4,000 to $4,000.
They must be captured when they are
young and raised on goats milk. A
caravan of hunters returning across
the desert with captured animals is a
strange sight. About 1000 goats are
brought with the caravan to furnish
milk for the antelopes, hippopotami
and other milk-drinkers. AS the goats
cease giving milk they are killed and
fed to the flesh-eaters. The animals
are carried in bamboo cages, rugged
with ropes and slung across the backs
of the camels. From the coast they
are shipped to Hamburg, where they
are received by member of the firm
and thence distributed according to
demand. Elephants are captured when
young, and usually by driving them
into immense traps that converge rap
idly until the beasts are cribbed into
each of the ropes. A fine elephant
will bring from'$1, 900 to $4,000. OF
course, the prices of animals vary
with the demand. You must get Il
man that wants d beast before you can
get any price for him-then the price
depends on how much he wants him.
"1 on see," said the man of beasts to
reporter, ''you wouldn't give $40 for
that lion there for your own use, and
yet he is worth $780," A good COM
panionable tiger can be bought for
$1,000, and nice leopard is worth
about $400. Monkeys sell in the bunch
by the dozen for about $50 each, and
rhinoceros brings about $4,000. A
giraffe is very expensive and very deli
cate, and zebra striped up the mark
of ninety-nine and one is worth about
$1,000. Giraffes die of indigestion
the rhinoceros, despite his heavy over
coat, is a frequent victim to consump-
ton, and the monkey dies of emo
tional languor. The depot for sea
lions is San Francisco. They are
taken to the South California coast
and bring about $400 each. Polar
bears come from the Arctics, and are
worth about $4,000. They are kept in
deep caves that are damp and sunless,
or in dens set in ice and with huge
blocks of ice dripping from the top.
The point at which they are bought
is Hamburg very few being taken in
our Arctic regions. The ostrich has
less sense than any land animal. and
yet is worth $1,000. They are caught
when young. Birds come from all
quarters. The most expensive is the
bird of paradise, which sells at from
5000 to $500, according to plumage.
Parrots, paroquets and monkeys are
brought in great numbers 10y sailors
who come in on foreign ships.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23
Origin OF the Term "HOneymOOn.v

The word honeymoon" is traceable
to Teutonic origin. Among the leu
tons was faVorite drink called "me-
theglin." 1t was made of honey, and
much like the present mead of Euro
pean countries. The same beverage
was in use among the Saxons, as well
as another called "morat," which was
also made of honey, but favored with
mulberries. The honeyed drinks were
used in great abundance at festivals.
Among the nobility the marriage was
celebrated whole lunar month, which
was called a moon, during which the
festive board was well supplied with
the honey drink. Hence this month of
festival was called the "honamoon," or
honeymoon, which means month of
festival.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23
A (.ipsey Wedding.

William Lee and Ada Boswell, two
gypsies, residing at Hanghton, Ches-
hire, "resolved to have wedding, o."
The event came off on Tuesday in Ban
bury parish church. The bride was
attired, according to gypsey custom, in
a dark green dress, with white lace
apron and cap, and she also wore a
wreath of gold leaves. The bridesmaid
was robed in a peacock blue velveteen
dress, with white cap adorned with
pink chrysanthenums. The service
was performed by the vicar. After
wards, by the invitation of Mr.. and
Mrs. Garrett, of Haughton hall, the
newly-married pair, with number of
other friends, went to the hall, when
breakfast was served in a tent on the
lawn. Toasts were proposed in the
Romany dialect.-GlaSgotO Meas.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23

A letter from Itlay says: "The Ital-
ian girl from the cradle is cultured in
expression, in word, by action and by
looks. Her entire features, gestures
and motions are highly expressive of
what language frequently fails to con-
vey. Her words are soft and sugges-
tive; her yivacious lip-service, her
sweetness of information AID her grace
of pose never desert her. Perfectly
unaffected, she is not French, and COM
pletely graceful, she is not American.
lowering between Juno and Venus,
she is proud, palpitating, passionate
and pretty. Next to Spain, this is the
country of emotional hands, shoulders
and, perhaps, feet'
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23

The recent census seems to prove
that the native Irish language is dying
out, although the inability to speak
English of several of the prisoners re-
Gently tried for grave crimes in Ireland
causes some speculation on the subject.
The number of persons returned by
the census as speaking Irish only in
1871 was 103,562, while in. 1881 the
number so returned was 64,167, or
1896 less than in 1871, and that in
1871 the number of persons who spoke
Irish and English was 714,313, while
in 1881 it was $780, 65.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23

A matter of fact: Little Eva, five
years old, goes to visit her grand
parents in the country. The morning
after her arrival her grandmother asks
her if she has said her prayers. "Oh,"
replied the child, 81 do that at night
when l 60 to bed" "But you should
thank God in the morning for the good
sleep He has given you" but, grand
mother" objects theyoung philosopher,
81 didn't sleep La. night"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23
Three Women who are Dentists.

A Philadelphia letter says: Miss
Jessie f. Detchon, of this city, a
younger sister of Miss Adelaide bet
chon, the well-known actress, has
taken the full two years course at the
Philadelphia dental college and passed
her examination with flying colors, and
has established herself in this city to
practise. She is the first lady who ever
received degree from the institution,
but there is one other female dentist
in the city, though there are no others
in America. In Europe there is one, a
German lady who came to this city to
study, and who, after graduating at
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23
The Tail sycamore or the Wabash.

The special correspondent of the lii
dianapolis Ind. Journal embodied in
Il ,cent communication the following
from Hon. Daniel w. Voorhees,: / con-
slider st. Jacobs Oil Il splendid remedy.
l suffered from an affection of the back
and kidneys, with some rheumatism
in fact. it was rheumatism Of the back.
| used st. Jacobs Oil and found it very
eflicacious. 1t gave me instantaneous
relief, and finally cured me completely
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23
An American Fable.

A bear which had been caught in a
Trap was moaning and signing and
wondering if every cloud had Silver
Lining, when along came Cow and
asked what particular ward caucus
that was and who had been elected
chairman.
I'm caught in Trap" moaned the
Bear.
Cant you get away?'
mo, indeed"
"Have you been here long?"
eyes; for five or six hours"
"And you must suffer dreadfully?"
81 certainly do"
swell, as there is no chance to es-
cape, and you must continue to suffer
until released, will at once go and
inform my master and let him come at
once and knock you on the head.-De-
troit Free Press.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23
Martin WASHINGTON.

1t is strange that there should be
so much dispute about Martha Wash
ington, says an exchange. 1t remains
unsettled whether she was born on
May 9Th or May Sth, 1882 (the same
year as George Washington), and
whether the name of her first husband,
whom she married in 1894, was John
Parke Gusts, or Daniel Parke Gusts.
Her daughter died when seventeen
years of age, and her son, Colonel John
Parke GUSTS (who served on General
Washingtsn's staff in 1881.