St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

HENRY MERROIl ttilu AAbi AOouA
were placed on trial at New York the other
day for robbing jeweler at Paris, France,
of So, 900 worth of diamonds.
In the star-route case at Washington
on the Sth Bliss closed his seven days adj
dress to the jury, and this was announced
as the close of the Governments opening.
The Court ruled that the Government would
only be allowed one address in closing, and,
as consequence, Attorney General Brew
ster would not take part in the argument.
The report came from San Antonio,
Tex, on the sth that the lately reported
robbery of United States Paymaster WATSON
on a Texas Pacific train turned out to be
$24, 900 defalcation instead.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, an application
trades tribunal, under the Wallace act, to
settle the coa1-miners' controversy.
The assignees of Newberg, Frenkel
& Co., clothing dealers, Cincinnati, o., have
filed an inventory showing the total ap-
praised value of assets to be $275,5O0; liza
bilities $3s2,O00.
The death sentence passed on Della
ny, who pleaded guilty at Dublin, Ireland,
recently to the charge Of completely in the
Phoenix Park murders, has been committed
by the Lord Lieutenant.
A. A. TINTsMAN & CO., coke manu-
facturers, Pittsburgh, Pa, have made an
assignment, with liabilities of $4,000, on
account of the depression in the coke
trade.
The Florida Ship Canal Company
effected an organization ON the 9th. Ex-
Governor Brown, of Tennessee, was elected
President. It was announced that $780, 00,-
900 had been subscribed to the capital stock
of the company.
GALVESTON, Tex, is now said to be
the second cotton port in the country, the
receipts this season reaching 100000 bales.
In the fisheries exhibition at London,
Eng, it is said the exhibits from America
will exceed those of all the European coun-
tries.
The Lieutenant-G Governor Of Nova
Scotia has received letter cautioning him
against two vessels said to have sailed from
Boston to Halifax, manned by Fenians and
carrying large qua tity of torpedoes, with
Scotians the execution of Brady, the con-
demned Phoenix Park assassin. Precau-
tions have been taken to guard against
the menacing danger.
GOVERNOR BUTLER has written a let
ter to Mr.. Folger, Secretary of the Treas
ury, asking that steps be taken to prey~9 mt
the landing of Irish paupers Tor "assiseed
emigrants'') at Boston, Mass.
THREE Arkansas convicts escaped
from the plantation of NJ. G. Sennett, lin JEFF
ferson County, the other day, and hanged
three bloodhounds, which were put on their
track. Other dogs were procured and two
of the men recaptured.
The value Of the exports of petro-
leum and petroleum products from the
United States for March were $3,423, 1876;
for nine months ended March 81, 1883, $12,-
o., 1913; corresponding period preceding
year, $3s, POI ,257.
A COURT-MARTIAL has been ordered
to convene on the 10th at San Antonio, Tex,
to try Major WATSON, the defaulting pay
master. Gambling was assigned as the
cause of his downfall.
JOHN j. KNOX, Comptroller Of the
Currency, has been temporarily appointed
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
The Speaker of the late New Jersey
Legislature has been arrested, charged with
attempting to bride member.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has decided to
give the marine hospital service the dis
posal of the epidemic fund.
The telegraph minated on the 9th
that Germany is liable to be irritated at re-
marks in the French press.
Dodge Cry, Kan, was reported on
the 9th inst. to be in the hands of an armed
mob, the Mayor being conspicuous actor
in the interest Of a faction.
A SEVERE tornado struck the Wyom-
ing Valley in Pennsylvania on the 9th.
Trees were uprooted and railroad traffic in
terrupted.
AT the TeWksbury, Mass, inquiry on
the 9th John Bacon and two employees tes-
titled to tanning two human skins, one
white and the other black.
THE estimated railroad construction
for 1882 is 5000 miles.
A WIND-sToRM Of great violence Wis
tied New York City, Paterson and Trenton,
N. J., and Williamsport, Penn, on the It'll,
damaging buildings and interrupting tele-
graphic and telephone communication. At
Denver, Colo, there was remarkable hail
storm, the stones being very large. The
storm was general throughout Nebraska,
and had extended to Northern Illinois and
Iowa on the Sth.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the 9th
that the great steel rail mill of North Chi
cage, ILL.,, would start up in short time,
giving an opportunity for work to nearly
1000 men.
NINETY Cree Indians were captured
by United States troops in the Bears Paw