St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-09-08

AT New Haven, Conn, on the 29tl
Isaac H. Lockwood was convicted in tt
United States Court on the charge OF usin
the mails to defraud.
By the fall of a spar while the ere,
, were exercising Lieutenant Boutelle Noye
of the United States Navy, was killed 6
Yokohama recently.
On the 28th a farmer named Cutche
was found dead in his wagon in Shiawass
County, Mich, supposed to have bee
poisoned with strychnine administered b
a rival in love.
AN express train on the Philadelphia
d Atlantic Road was ditched on the BOT
at Pleasantville, Pa, and some thirty pas
sengers were badly injured.
| In County Limerick, Ireland. Ms
Catherine Connolly has been charged a
being implicated with her two brothers il
murder conspiracy.
/ A STAGE was upset recently in thu
streets of Aguasco Caiientes, Mexico
| when robbers gathered and plundered it o
all small articles that could be easily mad,
way with.
A BOY was put off by the conductor
OF an excursion train while under way neal
Scranton, Pa, on the Both, causing his in
! slant death under the wheels.
HE runaway cashier of the Second
National Bank Of jefferson, O., Sylvester
F. Fuller, and H. L. st. John, his assistant
were arrested on the Goth on the charge OF
stealing 900 of the banks money
| MAURICE MCNAMARA, a New York
| policeman, was arrested on the Both,
charged with clubbing man to death the
evening previous.
MISCELLANEOUS.
TWELVE deaths were reported from
cholera in Alexandra on the 9th; I65
| deaths in Upper Egypt, and six in Lower
Egypt.
ADvIcEs from Mexico say plague
of grasshoppers was threatened in the vi
entity of Vera Cruz, the ground being GOV.
cred with the newly-hatched pests.
On the 2Sth placards appeared in
Paris inviting citizens to rally to the sup
port of the monarchy under Louis Phil
lippe II.
FRosTs prevailed in the Province of
Quebec on the night Of the 9th.
Rock County, Wis, was visited by a
furious hail-storm ON the night OF the 9th,
causing great destruction Of growing
crops.
On the 28th nineteen young ladies
took the veil at the Convent of the Sisters
of the Immaculate Heart, West Chester,
Pa.
A SECTION ten or fifteen miles in ex-
tent in Illinois was swept by hail-storm
on the night of the 9th, creating sad havoc
among the crops.
The Salt Lake Gu. To- Tribune office
was in state of siege on the 2sth by reason
of telling some too palpable truths. It was
supplied with arms from Fort Douglass for
protection.
On the 29th the Fire Underwriters of
the N orthwest met in annual convention at |
Chicago.
The French Ambassador arrived at
Saigon on the 10Th with the treaty which |
was signed at Hue on the 18th.
A MEETING of the Irish National |
League was held at Dublin on the 18th, at +
which Parnell Sexton and Davitt were /
present.
ONE hundred tobacco towns in the
Connecticut and Housatonic Valleys sent
IN reports up to the 10Th indicating that
;he tobacco crop will be full average and
excellent in quality.
SEVENTY-FIvE cases of cartridges
md one hundred cases of rifles and revol-
nj NJ po -df |
oekin at San Francisco for Shanghai on the
9th.
On the 29th two hundred head of
Jersey cattle and number of ponies,
heep, and hogs, valued at $4,000, were
anded at Chester, Pa, from Hull. The
nimals were quarantined.
Orders have been issued for the United
'tates steamship Monocacy to return to-
,orea to continue the series of surveys be-
un there.
TWELVE deaths from cholera were
eported in Alexandria in the 2Sth; ia in {
lpper Egypt and seven in Lower Egypt.
By command Of the Gar the Rus
ian officials now in Bulgaria are to re-
lain two years longer, and opposition to J
1eir rule is to be treated as rebellion.
The summoning of the German Par t
ament was held in Vienna to indicate that G
pain had been admitted to the triple ALI
nee. c
Our Of consideration for French feel t
lgs, Emperor William has decided not to
Did the annual review of the, Guards on Q
e anniversary of Sedan f
ELEVEN thousand bales of New South
'ales, Victorian and Cape wool were sold 4
London on the 10Th. +
DURING July the imports of British h
on and steel were 0,703 tons against 1o3,-
tons for the corresponding month last c
'ar. The imports of iron and steel for the u
st seven months of the year compared n
lth the corresponding period of last year b