St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-07-14
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
JUDAH P. BENJAMIN was given 8
farewell banquet in London the other even
ing by two hundred representative English
men.
A STATUE of ex-President Taylor, exc
cuted at Cararra, Italy, has arrived in
Louisville, KY, and will soon be unveiled
in the cemetery at that city.
The Empress of Germany has given
1000 marks for the relief of sufferers by
the recent overflow in Silesia.
FATHER RIoRDAN. of St. James
Church, Chicago, has been appointed coad
jutor to Bishop Alymenia, of California.
He is native of New Brunswick, and is
about forty two years of age.
ENoCH PRATT the other day gave
the Pratt library to the city of Baltimore,
Md; also $3.50, 1888 33, invested in city
bonds, for the support of the institution.
w. II. VANDERBILT has added $780,
600 to the endowment fund of the Wander
bilt University at Nashville, Tenn, swelling
that fund to $700,O
COLONEL HoLLABIRD has been APP
pointed Quartermaster-Gen to succeed
General ingalls,.
INFORMATION received on the I'd from
Rockingham County, Va, where w. c..
Elan was taken by friends after he had
been wounded in the recent duel with r. F.
Beirne, of the Richmond State, was to the
effect that the wound was more aggravated
than at first reported, and that Elam's con.
dition was critical.
The death list on the 4th included
Bishop John McMullen, of the Catholic do
cese of Davenport, Iowa, and Bishop Pink
ney, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Maryland.
The Pennsylvania Senate has passed
resolution asking Congress to make the
trade dollar legal tender.
JAMES F. JONES has been elected to
Congress from the First Alabama District.
HANLoN, the oarsman, won another
victory on the 4th, at Lowell, Mass.
The Georgia Legislature convened
and organized at Atlanta on the 4th. The
officers were all present.
RICHARD G. VREELAND. once the
partner of Cornelius Vanderbilt in operat-
ing the first ferry at New York, was buried
few days ago.
The Duke Of Marlborough died sud-
denly at London, Eng, on the 9th of heart
disease.
The Attorney General at Washing
ton rules that the shipment of whisky to
Bermuda, with view to avoid duty pay
ments, is not an expectation within the
view of the law.
PARNELL, in a speech at the Cork
banquet in connection with the Industrial
Exhibition on the 9TH, said he believed the
Exposition was hopeful sign of the re-
vival of Irish industries.
The platform adopted by the Nation
al anti Monopoly Convention, which closed
a two days. session at Chicago, ILL.,, ON
the 9TH, calls for abolition of the national
banking law, establishment of the postal
telegraph and saving bank systems,
graduated income tax, and restriction of
congressional taxation to necessary ex-
penses, and denounces gambling in the nec-
essaries of life.
The Mississippi Independents held
their State Convention at Jackson on the
4th. The platform favors free ballot and
a fair count, demands legislative SUPER
vision of railroads and indorses the South
ern policy Of President Arthur.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the 9th |
of the death of Archbishop John Baptist
Purcell, which occurred the night before at |
st. Martins, 0.
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