St. Landry democrat., 1883-06-30
TOPICS OF THE DAY,
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
The Mexican Congress adjourned on
the 18th. The most important measures
passed were the authorization to the
President to settle the national debt;
amendment to the Constitution submitted
to the States giving control OF mining and
commercial laws to the Federal Congress,
and several railroad grants. The most inn
portant gives charter with subvention to
the State of Michoacan over the route for
which the Mexican National Railroad for
feited its charter, after having spent large
sums in construction.
CAPTAIN GEORGE E. BELKNAP has
been ordered to take command of the Nor
folk (Va.) navy yard in place of Commo-
dore Mayo, who is under charges preferred
by ex-Congressman Dezendorf.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN GEORGE BRIDGES
RODNEY, the oldest lawyer at the Delaware
bar, died at Newcastle, in that State, on the
18th.
The President has appointed Freder-
lex M. Cheny, of Massachusetts,, United
States Consul at Zanzibar.
THE Spanish Foreign Minister favors
an amendment of the law giving England
the right to search Spanish vessels for
slaves.
The Chairman of the Pennsylvania
Democratic Central Committee has issued a
call for meeting Of the State Convention
at Harrisburg on Augusta.
GENERAL WALLACE, the United States
Minister, has declined to accep. the pro
posed Turkish license tax on foreigners.
The President has recognized Joseph
Winchester, British Vice-Consul at San
Diego, CAL, and Charles White Mortimer,
British Vice-Consul for Wilmington and
Los Angeles, Cal.
SIX Indian boys and four girls from
the Indian school, Hampton, Va, called
ington on the 10th. They were en- route to
their homes in Dakota, having finished a
three years. course of study at Hampton.
The President has appointed the
following cadets at large to West Point
Military Academy: Manning J. Logan,
Illinois, son of General Logan; Andrew
Curtin Quay, Pennsylvania, and Pierre
pont Isham, Illinois, with Robert A. EN-
NETT, New York, and Samuel D. Hatch,
Iowa, alternates.
The cable announced on the 10th
that the steamer Sophia, with Prof. Nor
+denskiold and his arctic expedition, arrived
at Reykjavik, Iceland, on June 6. The
party intended to start for Greenland on
the 10th inst.
SENATOR HAMPTON delivered an adj
dress at the dedication of a monumunt to
Confederate dead at Camden, S. c., on the
Goth.
The death Of Archbishop James F.
Wood occurred at the Archepiscopal resi-
dence, in Philadelphia, Pa, on the Goth.
GENERAL CHARLES EWING, formerly
of Ohio, died at Washington, d. c., on the
Goth, of pneumonia. He was a brother-in-
law of General Sherman, upon whose staff
he served during the war.
THE Ohio Democratic State Conven-
ton, in session at Columbus on the 21st,
nominated Judge Hoadley for Governor
and John G. Warwick for Lieutenant Gov
ernor.
GOVERNOR PATTIsON, of Pennsyl-
vania, has vetoed four more bills relating
to claims for quartering troops during the
war and to division of counties.
AT a Cabinet Council at Versailles,
France, on the 21st, it was positively stated
that the Queen of Madagascar had been
dead six months, and that the military
party had concealed the fact.
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