St. Landry democrat., 1883-11-03
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.

News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
In New York on the 23d Norvin
Green and Henry Willard were elected Di-
rectors of the Electric Light Company.
A YOUNG man in Portland, Me-,
claims to be the missing Charley Ross. He
says he was kept in dark room four years
and subsequently taken to Brazil.
THE Pittsburgh (Pa.) Commercial
Gazette has been sued for 500, ,oeoby Robert
Morrison of that city for announcing while
he was absent from the city that he had
left for parts unknown with obligations to
business patrons unsettled.
ON the 23d the Marquis of Lansdowne
was duly sworn in as Governor-Generalo of
Canada.
On the 2Sd Secretary Folger made re-
QUESTION on the Civil Service Commission
for five men to fill $500 clerkships which
have been usually filled by women.
The French officer, Lieutenant Wand.
who told about the atrocities of the French
sailors at the taking of Hue, has been retir.
ed.
The leaders of the Irish reform move
ment, Thomas Brennan and John Dillon,
were in Chicago on the oath, and proposed
to deliver lectures throughout the country.
IT is reported that Albeit, Democratic
nominee for Lieutenant-G Governor in Massa-
chusetts. has declined to make the race.
The universal adoption of the Green
wich meridian as time standard is recon-
mended by the Geodetic Association at
Rome.
CARDINAL MANNING thinks the Pope
has shown much willingness to meet Bis
marck's advances, and that Bismarck is
anxious for reconciliation.
AT the city election on the 23d Balti-
more polled "a, ,754 votes. The regular DEM
ocratic ticket was successful.
BURGLAR PORTER has been locked up
charged with shooting Burglar Walsh in
New York at the time Walsh and Irving
were reported as having killed each other.
a JUDGMENT has been obtained by
DIR. G. Fayette Taylor for $4,000 against a
New York elevated railway company for
running trains before house he had rented
for hospital before the road was built.
A DISPATCH from Vienna of the Oath
says the Czar of Russia has decided to
grant Russia more freedom and such re-
forms as are suitable to the spirit of the
people. He has intrusted to Count Tolstoi
and Count Katjoff the task Of preparing
constitution.
AN old and well-known scientist, DR..
Leonard Gale, died at Washington on the
23d. He assisted Prof. Morse in building
the first telegraph line between Washing
ton and Baltimore.
On the 25th Mrs. Langtry started on
her professional tour through the country.
Her first engagement was in Montreal, and
from the United States she will probably
go to Australia.
ON the 25th Rev. Jos. Lesson was
elected Provincial of the franciscan Order
of the United States.
TIE Marquis of Lansdowne has decid-
ed not to receive addresses from Irish,
Scotch or English societies.
IT is hoped by the Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria that the army of occupa-
tion in Bosnia and Herzegovina may soon
be reduced.
WILLIAM FL. JENKINS & Co., door
manufacturers, New York, have failed for
$4,000. Eddy, Harvey & Co., hats, caps
and furs, of Chicago, have failed for $780,
900.
A BosToN dispatch of the 25th says
that j. s. Grinnell, State Senator from
Greenfield has been nominated for Lieuten-
ant Governor by the Massachusetts, Demo-
cratic State Committee.
ON the 25th the Second Presbyterian
Church of indianapolis, the largest in In
diana, voted to extend call to Rev. James
Mcleod, pastor of the Central Presbyterian
Church of Buffalo, N. Y.
A LONDON dispatch of the 25th says
it is learned that the Princess Of Wales is
incurably deaf.
A sTUCCo model of John Browns
statue has already been placed on pc
destal at Balmoral. The Queen is most
anxious for the completion Of the statue OF
her late factotum.
SIR CLIFFoRD LLOYD, the Irish Mag
istrate, was seized with cholera soon after
his arrival in Egypt.
EUGENE O'NEILL, an ex-detectiVe in
the Phoenix Park murder case, having cut
his throat with blunt razor, says he was
driven to attempt suicide by the persecu-
tion Of Fenians, who SO blasted his charac-
ter that even the Salvation Army rejected
him.
LONDON Truth says that the late DR..
Begg, the leader of the Puritanical section
Of the Scottish people, has left his family
$4,000, the fruit Of successful stock-gam-
bling.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
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