St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

FITZHARRIS was acquitted on MS trlal
as principal in the Phoenix Park murder at
Dublin, ireland, ON the LIST. He will be
tried for conspiracy.
A MAN named Mitchell, who was
caught with four pounds of nitro-glycerine
in his possession at Leicester, Eng, has
been remanded for trial.
THE Ohio Supreme Court has refused
to grant motion for a petition in error in
the case of J. d. Watson, convicted of brih-
ing members of the Legislature. The de-
cision of the Court to imprisonment will be
carried out.
The first commencement exercises OF
the Baltimore (Md.) Woman's Medical Col
lege took place on the 1st inst.
STEPS are to be taken by English
capitalist4eo construct another canal across
the isthmus of Suez.
The coinage executed at the various
United States MINIS during April was
$7,S11 900, of which s., 35O, 600 was in stand
ard silver dollars.
The schedule in the assignment of
Isaac Sippili, the New York faerchant re-
Gently arrested on charge on swindling,
shows the liabilities at 1886, 5175; actual as
sets, States.
The Grand Jury at Harrodsburg,
KY, has returned an Indictment for muir
der against Hon. Phil B. Thompson for kill
ing Walter Davis.
THE movement of stock had begun
in the Indian Territory on the I'd, and the
prospect was that the drive would be large
l,, ayoncc Of that of 10 Of
THERE have been one hundred and
thirty-two National Banks opened within
the six months ended on the I'd, with q
capital of $14,95s,O 900.
The Executive Committee of the Ma
tional Board of Health has ordered that in
spection service on the Mississippi be open
ed Immediately.
DICKEY BROTHERS, San Francisco,
the largest ship-builders on the Pacific
coast, have failed, with liabilities of $780,
600.
The railroad coal strike in Pennsyl-
vania which began on the 1st is reported to
include all the mines but two.
The International Exhibition at Ann
sterdam, Germany, was opened on the I'd
illStss ny tue Ming.
A PROMINENT member of the Irish
Nationalist party named Murphy has been
remanded for trial for refusing to testify at
private inquiry.
IT is said the Ohio crops have sus-
tanned more damage than those of any other
winter wheat State.
LABOR strikes were inaugurated in
various parts OF the United States on the
1st, the most noteworthy being that of the
railroad coal miners of the "Pan-Haneile"
district Of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Six
thousand miners have quit work rather
than submit to the proposed reduction of
wages. In numerous instances cigar
makers who had been refused an advance
Of 81 per thousand have struck work. At
Lynn, Mass, there was general strike of
shoemakers.
The rare occurrence was reported
from Salt Lake, Utah, the other morning of
Mormon's wife entering complaint of
polygamy against him. In this instance
the woman had been beaten by her hus-
band, and redress had been denied her by a
Mormon justice.
VAST quantities of tobacco and cigars
were shipped by manufacturers on the LIST,
the filing Of orders having been postponed
for some time past until the reduction of
the tax took effect. ~.
FREEMAN, the Pocasset fanatic who
sacrificed his little daughter four years
ago, since which time he has been confined
as lunatic, was placed on trial at Barn
stable, Mass, the other day for murder,
having recovered his reason.
PAYMAsTER WATSON of the United
States Army says thieves stole his valise
containing $4,000 while he was asleep the
other night in slesping-car on the Texas
& Pacific Railroad.
MYRA CLARK GAINES has obtained
judgment against the city Of New Orleans,
La, for $1.925.667.