St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-10-06
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
MARQUIS TsENG received the reply of
the Chinese Government to his dispatches
in Paris op the Goth.
KING ALFONSO has incurred the dis
pleasure of the Paris newspapers in ac-
cepting the colonelcy Of the Strasburg
Uhlan regiment.
On the Goth Jos. Medill of the Chicago
Tribune testified before the Senate Labor
Committee. He favors industrial schools.
Ex-Governor TALBOT, chairman of
the Massachusetts, State Board of Health
and Charity, declines to deliver certain
books called for by Governor Butler
The postponement of Sitting Bulls
baptism into the Catholic Church is an
nounced because he cannot make up his
mind which of his two wives he will let go.
A NEW YORK dispatch OF the Goth
announced the arrival in that city of Thorn
as NJ. Knapp, of st. Louis, No., having in
charge the remains of his father, George
Knapp, who was senior proprietor of the
Missouri Republican, and who died at sea
September is while en- route from Antwerp
to New York. TWAS expected the remains
would reach St. Louis the evening of the
2Sth. Mr.. Knapp, had he lived till the 25th,
would have been seventy years of age.
The trunks of Joseph A. Donohue
were seized by the customs authorities at
New York on the 26th, and found to contain
ST 600 worth of dutiable goods. Donohue is
"a wealthy Californian.
The Republican nominee for Gov
ernor of New Jersey, Judge Dixon, has sig
nified his acceptance of the nomination.
NJ. Is. REESE received the nomination
of the Nebraska Republican State Conven-
ton for Judge of the Supreme Court.
The New York State Prohibition Con-
vention was held at Syracuse on the 26th
ard State ticket was nominated.
ISAAC FL. MAYNARD was nominated
Democrats on the 9th.
ST. SLIMAN, the Algerian chieftain,
was recently assassinated at banquet, to
which he had been invited by two other
chiefs.
THE National Association of Insur-
,ance Commissioners in session at Column
bus, o., elected John A. Mccall Presi-
dent.
N. The Republicans of Maryland on the
9th nominated Hon. Hart B. Holton for
Governor. The platform declares in favor
of reform in the oyster service.
PRINCE BIsMARCKis said to have made
King Alfonso Colonel of Uhlans for the
purpose of causing the Parisians to give
him a cold reception and so engender a
hostile spirit.
On the 9th Reuben E. Carroll ex-
planned to the Senate Labor Committee the
system of railroad rebates by which all oil
producers are compelled to sell their stocks
through the Standard Oil Company.
JUDGE RAY, of Indiana, law clerk of
the Post-office Department at Washington,
resigned on the 9th.
TT was rumored in London on the
9th that John Stewart Parnell had been
shot at Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ire
land.
On the 9th Robert Murray, Medical
Director on Gen. Hancock's staff, said that
the General was much better. An abcess
was forming above his knee, bat no serious
results were appTenenueu. Inc Oeneral
might be said in fact to be already con-
valescent.
On the 9th the Corean Embassy
were rendered the freedom Of the City Of
New York by Mayor Edison. One Embas-
sador made brief reply of thanks for the
courtesies extended them during their
visit. He said it far exceeded their expec-
tations. He hoped the two people might
henceforth be as one people. The Embassy
were then driven across the Brooklyn
bridge.
AT the closing session Of the Railroad
conference in San Francisco on the 9th J.
&c. Gault, late General Manager Of the Wa.
bash Road, was elected Commissioner of
lines west of the Missouri River.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THOMAS D. DEvEREAUx was before
the Senate Committee on the oath and adj
Ivocated diversion of part Of the money now
spent on military and naval schools to the
survey of Government lands.
For malfeasance in Office Alfred E.
Hams, almshouse steward at Camden N.
IT,, has been arrested and held for trial.