St. Landry democrat., 1883-08-18
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND poL1r1cA1.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
PRoF. T. w. ToB1N, well-known
throughout the West as scientist, and
whose lectures on explosions in -four mills
attracted wide interest, died at Louisville
the other morning, Of consumption.
DAyITT, in addressing a meeting in
County Glare, Ireland, recently declared
that the British Government was reduced
to such extremities that it could not protect
its vilest instruments.
The Archbishop of Naples is to be
vices to the sufferers by the recent earth
quake.
THIRTY THOUSAND people took part
in demonstration in the Trafalgar Square,
London, the other day to protest against
the exclusion Of Bradlaugh from the House
of Commons.
c. P. BLEDsoE, editor of the Nash
vile (Tenn.) Banner, died at Palestine,
Tex, few days ago. He had accompanied
the Tennessee Editorial Excursion to Texas
and found himself unable to return on ac-
count of sickness, and stopped off at Pal
estine.
!. w. w. MCNAIR. nominated for Gov
,ernor by the late Iowa Democratic Conven-
ton, has declined to accept the nomination.
The Georgia Legislature has passed
general local option law.
RETURNS from the Kentucky election
were coming in very slowly on the 7th, but
the Democrats claimed gains in many
counties, and that J. Proctor Knott's
majority for Governor would be not less
than 10000.
S. G. w. BENJAMIN. the first diplo-
matte representative of the United States
to Persia, gives a glowing account Of his
reception by the Shah.
NUMEROUS members of the British
Parliament it is said will visit America
during thevacation.
AT the recent election in Utah, under
the federal law, the Mormons carried every
county, the gentiles electing few justices
and constables in mining camps. The Leg
islature will be composed wholly of young
Mormons. The registration lists at Salt
Lake contained nearly six thousand names,
and but twenty-seven hundred votes were
cast.
AN attache Of the Mexican Legation
at Washington says commercial treaty
has been recently signed between his coun-
try and Germany, containing no offensive
and defensive provisions. The widespread
dissatisfaction of the lower classes in Mexi-
co in regard to the American railway pro-
jects, he says, has totally disappeared, and
capital from the United States is welcomed
by all.
The New Jersey convention of the
National party, in session at Asbury Park,
N. j., on the 9th, declared in favor of Gov
eminent control of railways and telegraph,
equal taxation and universal suffrage, but
refused to adopt a prohibition plank. Ben
jamin Urner was nominated for Governor.
A NATIONAL demonstration arranged
to take place on. Parnell's estate in Ireland
has been abandoned, it is said because of
an intimation from the authorities that it
would be suppressed.
AT the Lord Mayors banquet in Lon
don, Eng, the other night, Gladstone said
the Government desired simply to acceler-
ate reform in Egypt, when the British
would disappear from the country; that
the Tamative difficulty would be adjusted
by France in a generous spirit, and that
peace and security prevailed in Ireland.
The Ohio Liquor Dealers Protective
Association met in convention at Toledo on
the 10Th to organize for the fall political
campaign.
The Maryland Republicans will hold
their State Convention at Baltimore, Sep
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
NINE persons were recently drowned
in Lincolnshire, Eng, by the upsetting of
l,not 4