St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-11-24
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

u. S. N, died at Morristown, N. I.
In his report United States Treasurer
Wyman notes decrease Of 1921 ,6o3 In
net revenue last year and recommends an
increase of salaries in the Treasurer's Of
fee.
On the 18th Lieutenant Darlington
testified in the Greeley relief inquiry. He
said the Yantic was of practically no use,
but was sent with the Proteus merely 20
satisfy public opinion.
On the 18th the Police Board of St.
Louis, NO., voted to appeal from the decis-
ion Of the Court of Appeals in the case OF
Chief Campbell. Mr.. Woodward, the new
Commissioner, voted with Commissioners
'Lutz and Caruth.
ON the 18th James Mathieson was
fined ESQ in Toronto, Ont, for playing faro,
the prosecution being had under, a law more
than 200 years old.
SAMUEL =. RANDALL is lying scri-
ously i'll at his cottage near Berwyn Sta
ition, Pa. His ma1ady is gout, which, it is
feared, is about to be followed by erysipe-
las.
A NEW York liquor dealer named
Jacob Owe, recently convicted under the
revenue laws, and the owner of considera-
BILE unincumbered property, is missing. He
is thought to have committed suicide.
ON the 18th DR.. w. S. Raker, Of Peru,
Ind, was taken from the Paris, Ill, Gala
boose, where he was confined for drunken
ness, to Peru, Ind, to answer the graver
charge of forgery preferred against him.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT Row
LAND of the Louisville & Nashville Road
has resigned.
IT is said that Henry Chaplin, mem--
Der of Parliament for Lincolnshire, will
continue to urge restriction in the importa-
ton of American cattle.
The Chaplain to the German Court,
DIR. Stocker, lectured recently in London to
an audience SO disorderly and insulting
that he left the hall in disgust.
WHEN Edwin Booth, the actor, was
comparatively unknown the late DR.. Ever,
of San Francisco, admired him and aided
him by appreciative articles. Now Booth
heads with 5000 a subscription for the
benefit of DR.. Ewer's family.
SOME time ago. Rev. James Brand, of
Cleveland, O., denounced Frank E. Bron-
son in the pulpit for selling liquor. Bron-
son sued the preacher for $30, 900 for libel,
and disagreeing jury on the 14th stood
ten for conviction and two for acquittal.
SUPERINTENDENT J. w. ROBBINS,
of Arizona, died on the 14th, at Tucson. A.
T. Deceased was formerly connected with
the Chicago Inter- Ocean.
On the 14th in the investigation into
the Greedy relief expedition failure, Gem
eral Hazen testified that the supplemental
memorandum formed no part Of CARING
toms instructions. Warrington showed
me-, said witness, s'all his orders, and
told him he must be controlled by the regu-
lar orders had given him and by directions
of Greedy, ON which they were founded.
Greely's letter was law to me, and didn't
feel authorized to give any orders thatwould
conflict with it,
SURGEoN-GENE HAMILTON favors
National quarantine system
The French commander in Tonquin,
Admiral Courbet, has malaria.
On the 10Th DR.. Stocker made an
other attempt to lecture in London, but was
hooted down by Socialist mob.
On the 18th Colonel A. X. Mcclure,
of the Philadelphia Times, was arrested on
charge of criminal libel at the instance Of
George Smith.
POSTMASTER MORRIS Brown, at
Brownsville, Pa, was arrested on the 10th
on charge OF opening letters.
RECENT comments of the French press
on the German Crown Princes VISIT to Mad
rid are not pleasing to the Prussians.
DR.. ALBERT GEHoN, of Washington,
d D. c., has been elected President Of the
Public Health Association. The next an
nual meeting is to be held in st. Louis, Mo.
On the 18th Samuel Z. Nixon, mana
ger of the Chestnut Street Theater in Phil
adelphia, was held in 5000 bail for failing
to pay a license of $500.
On the 18th General Hazen testified
before the Greedy relief Court of Inquiry
that the bungled statement about the sup
Elemental instructions was made out dur
ing his absence.
EDWARD GIBSON, member of Parlia-
ment for Dublin University, is proposed as
candidate for the Rectorship of st. An
drews' University in opposition to Minister
James Russell Lowell.
CIDIES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 4 9TH three men were killed by
an explosion in mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
AT Greensburg, Pa, Joseph Somer is
under arrest for numbering his father and
servant girl
A SEVERE gale swept the lakes the
night of the 18th. Numerous wrecks were
reported OH Lakes Ontario, Erie and HUI
ron. Fears were also entertained for the
safety Of several vessels caught out on
Lake Michigan.
"A GANG of strikers on the Panama
Canal recently ditched train-load of la
borers and guards and fired on the wreck,