St. Landry democrat., 1883-06-02
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The Rev. DR.. Hornblower, of the
Western Theological Seminary, was
stricken with paralysis while preaching a
few days ago in Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Secretary of the Interior has ap-
pointed commission to appraise the KICK
apoo Indian lands in Kansas.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made to
place bust of Longfellow in Westminster
Abbey, between the tombs of Chaucer and
Dryden.
PRIME MINISTER DEPRETEs announced
in the Italian Chamber of Deputies on the
22d that the Cabinet had resigned and he
had been entrusted by the King with the
formation of another Cabinet.
The New Jersey Prohibition State
Convention, in session at Trenton on the
22d, nominated DR.. Isaac N. Quimby of
Jersey City for Governor.
AT Madrid, Spain, fourteen thousand
troops were reviewed the other day in hon
Or of the King of Portugal.
A. d. GERMAN, of Albany, n. Y, has
given Williams College $4,000 to found a
professorship.
ARTHUR Z. SULLIVAN, George Alex
ander McFarren and George Grove. COM
posers, were formally decorated in Windsor
Palace the other day, by the Queen, with
the order of knighthood.
The Royal Society of Canada has
appointed DR.. S. Hunt, Major Powell and
w. Gossip as delegates to the meeting of
the National Academy of Science at Wash
ington, D. C.
ARGENT decision Of the Second Audi
tor of the Treasury that the acceptance Of
positions in the civil service deprives per-
sons on the retired list of the army of the
latter honor and the accompanying emolu-
ments affects General Daniel E. Sickles
equally with Colonel Badeau, whose case
invoked the ruling. General Sickles has
been drawing 1000 year as Brigadier-
General on the retired list slice 1869, in
cluding the time he served as Minister to
Spain.
The death of General Sabatier,
Governor of Paris, France, has been an
nounced.
WITH slight notifications, the French
Chamber of Deputies has adopted the
American postal-service regulations.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR, accompanied by
most of the members of his Cabinet, ar
rived at New York OH the 23d, where he
would witness the ceremonies attending
the opening of the Brooklyn bridge. He
will not return to Washington until after
Decoration Day.
The annual dinner given by Minister
West at the British Legation in Washing
ton on the oath, in honor of the Queens
birthday, was attended by the foreign am
bassadors generally, Admiral Proctor,
General Sherman, Chief-Justice Waite,
Senator Miller and several representatives
of the departments. Secretary Teller was
the only Cabinet officer present.
TIE State Convention Of the Ken
lucky Republicans concluded it's session at
Lexington on the 24th. The following
ticket was nominated: Thomas q. Morrow
for Governor; General S. S. Fry, Lieuten-
ant Governor; Lewis G. Garrigus, Attor-
ney-G General; Leroy R. Hawthorne, Audi
tor; - Flournoy, Treasurer; ]. B. Pink
erton, Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, and J. w. Ashbury, colored, Register
of the Land Office.
THE Ohio Grand Lodge of the Knights
Of Pythias concluded it's session at Cincin-
natl on the oath. The.next meeting will be
held at Canton in May, 1884.
The Arctic exploring vessel Sophia,
with Prof. Nordenskjo1d and other scien-
fists, has sailed from Gothenburg, Sweden,
for Greenland.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
WHILE resisting arrest negro named
Oscar Pollack was shot four times by the