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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-08-04
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The failures throughout the country
for the seven days ended on the 9th num-
bered 100, as compared with 16S the week
previous. The geographical distribution
was: New England, So; Middle States, 80;
and Territories, 90; Canada, 81, and New
York City, s.
The cholera cases which had oc-
Cured in England were on the 9th pro-
nounced sporadic, and had no connection
with the epidemic in Egypt. The deaths
at Cairo for the twenty-four hours
were 3l1. In the Bombay presidency 1,161
deaths occurred from cholera the first week
in June.
The death of Hon. Montgomery
Blair occurred at his residence, at Silver
Springs, near Washington, D. c., on the
9th.
TIE Ward Iron Company of Niles
and New Philadelphia, O., has failed, with
estimated liabilities of 100000. The avail
able assets were said to be less than 5000.
ENGLAND has protested against the
return of paupers from New York, who
were on their way to join friends that were
ready to take care of them.
ANOTHER batch of the Sprague prop
erty was sold on the 9th at Central Falls,
R. l., for 100000.
The Massachusetts, Legislature adj
journed on the 9th after the longest ses-
sion on record--two hundred and six days.
Two women and man crossing q
railroad track ia wagon near Lancaster,
Pa, the other day were struck by train
and killed.
IT was reported on the 9th that
British demand for discontinuance of the
state of siege at Tamatave had been re-
fused by the French Admiral.
TIE New York Produce Exchange
has adopted resolution to confer with
other exchanges relative to building their
own lines of telegraph.
ATLANTIC CRY is said to be filled
with Italian boys under control of padrones
who compel them to bring in a stipulated
sum daily. The authorities were trying to
break up the practice.
A STORM which prevailed the other
night in the vicinity of Fort Worth, Tex,
has proved to have been a very serious one
throughout wide extent of country.
PACKARD, the American Consul at
London, Eng, has appointed doctor to
inspect the passengers and cargoes of all
vessels bound for the United States.
AT the election in Denver, Colo,
Robert B. Berth, Of Philadelphia, was
elected Commander-in-C Chief Of the Grand
Army of the Republic on the second ballot.
The national encampment closed on the
9th. The next encampment will be held
at Minneapolis. MINI.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-08-04
Steamboat Mate Brutally Beaten.

CAIRO, Ill, July 20.
S William mccarthy, mate of the City OF
Vicksburg, was placed in the hospital here,
last night, suffering from the effects OF a
severe beating administered by parties at
Darnell's Landing yesterday. 1t appears
that on the down trip of the boat the mate
became involved in some slight dispute
with parties at the landing, but supposed it
was all settled. On landing there last night
the mate was induced to go ashore upon
some pretext, and was immediately set
upon by three men, by whom he was dls-
armed and beaten numerically with club,
breaking his nose and several ribs ana
bruising his back and entire body fright,
fully. He is suffering very much, but WIZ
recover.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-08-04
YIGILANTES, VENGEANCE.
A Montana Desperate Hanged by Mob
at Miles Clty-fhe Town Partially De-
stroyed by Incendiaries.

"A Montana Desperate Hanged by a Hob
at Miles Clty-fhe Town Partially De-
stroyed by Incendiaries.
ST. PAUL, MINI, July 2a.
A Miles City special says that party of
masked men proceeded to the County Jail
yesterday, overpowered the Jailer, and
seized man named Rigney whom they
took about mile out of town and hanged
to the projecting end Of railroad tie over
a culvert. Rigney had been jailed the day
before for disorderly conduct, and bore
reputation as hard citizen, having been
accused of robbery and other crimes. He
was a bartender in the saloon of the
Cosmopolitan Theater. Two hours
after he was hung the theater
burst into flames, and was COM
pletely destroyed, with six other build
ings, among which was large drug store.
The progress of the fire was arrested by
the brick building of the First National
Bank, otherwise the entire block would have
been destroyed. The total loss is estimated
at $50, 900. 1t is generally thought that the
fire was the work Of an incendiary, in re-
taliation for the hanging Of Rigney.
LATER DETAILS OF THE LYNcH1Na.
Later advices from Miles City show that.
the fire occurred first and the lynching at.
terward. The fire broke out in the Cosmo,-
politan Theater, which was in a mass of
flames nearly as soon as discovered. Next
the flames fell upon row of three small
buildings, occupied by Marrill as a lunch
counter. Browns tobacco store and @ish-
ops Side-board saloon. These were totally
consumed. The fire quickly spread to the.
next building, which was known as Flick's
Hall, owned by Charles Bishop. This
building, being of pine logs, gave out a
strength that the block at one time was given
up for gone. From this building it spread
to the large and handsome store of Bisenick.
g. Bros, stationery and general dealers,
and in few moments what was a magnif-
icent structure was total wreck. The
next bull ding to succumb to the flames was.
the drug store of W. E. Savage & Co., a
large two-story frame building adjoining
the First National Bank. It was also.
quickly destroyed, and by the frantic eff
forts of the citizens the fire was here
stopped. The bank building, being of brick,
interposed as barrier to the further ad-
yancement of the fire. The loss is estimated
at various figures, by some as high as
$10O, 900.
After the excitement of the fire was over
party Of masked and determined men
proceeded to the Jail and took therefrom,
Bill Rigney, who had been incarcerated a
the daughters of worthy family named
Brown. He was found in the cell, and af--
ter some trouble was taken out, a rope put
around his neck and he was taken to the
railroad bridge over tne Tongue River, dis.
tant about a half mile, and hanged.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-08-04
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND poL1rIcAL.

RcCIoTT1 GAR1BALD1 has been de.
feated for seat in the Italian Chamber Of
Deputies.
GINERY TwICHELL died in Brookline,
Mass, a few days ago. He was promi
nent railroad man, and was once president
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com.
pany.
GENERAL E. o. C. ORD, of the United
States Army, who took passage on the
steamer City of Washington at Vera Cruz
for New York, and was taken down by
yellow fever, compelling his removal to the
shore while the vessel was at Havana,
Cuba, died in that city on the 23d.
The death Of Ex-Governor Thomas
Swami, of Maryland, occurred at his es.
tate near Leesburg, Va, on the oath. He
was representative from Baltimore in the
Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth
and Forty fifth Congresses.
GENERAL TREyINO, of Mexico, was in
'St. Louis, No., on the 24th, on his way to
meet General Ord in New York. The news
of that gallant officers death was terrible
surprise.
The Ohio State Convention to secure
the adoption of a prohibition amendment
was held on the oath at Columbus.
CAPTAIN MATHEW WEBB, the famous
swimmer, lost his life in the Niagara
Rapids on the oath.
In the ballot for the New Hampshire
Senatorship the leading candidates stood
as follows on the 18th: Bingham, ia;
Chandler, 70; Marston, Sc; Tappan, &c; Pat
terson, %; Burns, 20. On the second ballot:
Bingham, Ill; Chandler, Is.
The Virginia Democratic State Con-
vention met at Lynchburg on the 18th and
adopted platform, the final resolution of
which arraigned in strong terms the admin
.istration of National and State affairs, es-
,pecially between the President and Gen
eral Malone.
IT is reported that the late Henry T..
Kendall, of Providence, r. l., has left 5000
900 to the public library in that city.
A BANQUET given by the British vol
unteers in honor Of the American rifle team
took place at London, Eng, on the 25th.
The American and British rife teams were
present in full uniform.
The Georgia House of Representa-
tives ON the 18th unseated D. P. Proctor,
white, from Camden County, and seated
Anthony Wilson, colored in his place.
Wilson had been in two previous Legisla-
lures. There are two other negroes in that
body.
A RECENT cablegram announces the
death in battle Of Cetewayo, the Zulu King.
iAll of his wives and many of his chiefs
were also killed.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-08-04
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

THE middle belt of Minnesota from
Mankato east to the Mississippi River was
swept by tornado on the 21st. A st. Pau
journal Of a later date gives list Of six per
sons killed and nearly one hundred injured
and estimates the damage to crops at
$500, 900.
A SEVERE storm struck Asbury Park,
N. j., on the afternoon of the 23d. The
Madison, Gilsey and Howard houses were
unroofed and six carriages loaded with
people were upset and wrecked. A mum.
Der of tents were blown down at Ocean
Grove and an unknown colored man was
blown out to sea in boat.
By the breaking down of pier at
North Point, ten miles from Baltimore,
Nd, on the night of the 23d, an excursion
party of several hundred people was pre-
cipitated into deep water and about
seventy were drowned.
THERE was very destructive fire at
Memphis, Tenn, on the oath, number of
fine business houses being burned down.
1t was thought the total loss on stock and
buildings would reach $200, 200.
A MOB of masked men entered the
Jail at Hardin, the county. seat of Shelby
County, Iowa, on the oath, and taking
Hardy, the man who murdered Postmaster
Clingan at Polk City on the night of the
10th inst, hung him to a. tree and then rid
died his body with bullets.
A SPOOL factory, the storehouses in
connection, also two dwellings,, burned
down at Peticodiac, Quebec, the other
night. The loss was heavy; the insurance
small.
A FARMER named Floyd, living near
Rushville, Buchanan County, No., was
lynched on the night Of the 9th. He had
sold another farmer a horse which had
been stolen from st. Joe man.
FOUR lives were destroyed few
days ago by tornado near Eaton Rapids,
Mich. s.sa
TIE jury in the case against Ortiz Fl.
Stein, late city editor of the Kansas City
tMo.) .Eveni,ag Star, who killed George
Fredericks in that city June 8, has returned
verdict Of murder in the second degree,
and fixed the punishment at twenty-five
years in the Penitentiary.
A BOAT containing eight men and two
girls, ali colored, who were crossing the
james River at Claremont, Va, on the 18th,
upset and eight OF the party were drowned.
A YOUNG man named T. A. Pond, a
railroad hand, was found dead the other
might at Sandstone, jackson County, Mich,
hung by the neck, with hands tied behind
him. 1t was called suicide, but was
thought by some improbable that he should
have killed himself in that position.
THREE men were shockingly burned
the other morning by an explosion of cinder
blast in the iron-works at Catasaoua. Pa.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-08-04
BRA1Dwoop, 1;., came near having

/ BRAIDWOOD, lls., came near having
another frightful mine disaster few days
ago. Just as a fire in the Eureka shaft was
extinguished, after raging three days, q
heavy rain storm caused another flooding
| of the mines and the miners barely had
time to escape, a number being seriously
! injured in the scramble to get out.
The Khedive returned to Alexandria
from Cairo, Egypt, on the Goth. There
were 422 deaths from cholera in Cairo on
| that day. The death list on the 18th was
| five at Damieta, twenty -eight at Tantah,
| twenty-five at Mehalla, six at Chobar,
| seven at Samanoud, fifty-six at Mehallet,
| twenty-one at Stitch, twelve at Mansurah,
Fifty-fve at Ghizeh and three at Menzaleh.
| WILLIAM CLUTcHY, first mate of the
called ashore and terribly beaten by four
men at Darnell's Landing, Tenn, few
days ago.
The members of the firm of L. B.
Day & Co., carpets, Milwaukee, Wis, have
been arrested for false pretenses. They
recently failed for $4,000.
A SEAMAN died of yellow fever in q
Philadelphia hospital on the Goth.
UNITED STATES DETECTIVE PERKINS,
with officers from Pittsburgh, Pa, arrested
! a bad gang of highwaymen in West Vir-
ginia the other day.
The report of the luke Committee
shows that in three months 1927 emigrants
were assisted out of Ireland at cost of
ea5 900. 1t recommends a continuance of
the practice.
In the case Of ex-Treasurer Polk, of
guilty and assessed punishment at twenty
years. imprisonment.
TME cable announced on the 26th
that the revolution in Ecuador was ended
and an election was to be held. The pros
poets for peace in Peru were improving.
A COMPANY has been formed at In
dianapolis, Ind, to manufacture electric
headlights for locomotives.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
issued another call for bonds for redemp-
ton to the amount of about S31 ,0O0,0Oo
THE Norfolk and Portsmouth (Va.)
Exchanges have petitioned the authorities
for change in the hospital station at
Hampton Roads.
A GRAND-JURY at Pittsfeld, Mass,
has indicted lot of men for tarring and
feathering woman.
THE Louisiana lottery is said to be
eyading the Postmaster-General's recent
order by having its remittances sent to
New Orleans national bank
JOHN II. PETTINGILL, a substantial
business man of Lewiston, Maine, went to
ciness with his grandson the other day
and S, Tered himself to be defrauded out of
81 ,0OoIy monte men.
AT the national soldiers reunion at
Columbus, Ohio, on the 26th, twenty five
members of the Fifty-fourth Virginia Reg
iment were entertained by the Third Ohio
Speeches We're .~sade the day before by R.
B. Hayes, Char |Foster and Judges Hoad-
ley and Foraker.
THE Treasury Department purchased
1906 ounces of silver on the Goth for de-
livery at the Philadelphia, New Orleans
and San Francisco MINIS.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-03
DOUBTFUL.

Jackson county milkman while working the pump handle calls out, sH'ist there so, boss so there now !" It is way he has of easing his conscience.-- Argo.
 When Mrs. F. asked for q new bonnet Fogg promptly refused. sA man and wife are one, ,'' he said, land it is duty to prac- tice self-denial upon all occasions. Boston Transcript.
 ssDid you ever run for sheriff p asked Poots of a Cumminsville man. stOnly once," was the reply, ''and wouldn't then if there hadn't been two deputies with him. ''-Cin- cinnati Saturday Night.
 clergyman was induced to visit theater one night by the report that revival was going on there, but was disgusted to find that it was only @ revival of the 'Black Crook. "-Cincinnati Saturday Night.
 Why certainly, Ezra, certainly. Anybody can answer little question like that. They are called lend men'' because they are the last persons the wandering joke reaches in it's earthly pilgrimage. Hawkeye
 Mir. R. A. Proctor, an English scientific person, is about to publish scientific work en the ''Mysteries of Time and Space. ' Probably MT. Proctor has been reporter. and has learned to make out his bill.-Life.
 Little Jack Horner sat in the corner eating concentrated lye; his mother came in-he had emptied the tin! They will meet in the sweet by and by. He lived at Wheeling, W. Va, and was two years old.-Chicago Her aId
 sJohnny," said the schoolmistress, syou have been very naughty boy; now go and stand in the corner with your face to the wall until tell you you may go to your seat" ''Please marm,'' said Johnny, ''if turn my face to the wall I'll have to turn my back to you and the scholars. Won't that be rude ?" Boston Transcript.
 A little bright-eyed boy, upon hearing his father read the story of Joan of Arc. was greatly moved by her sad trials; but when the part was reached where she was about to be burned to death at the stake the poor lit tie fellow could not contain himself any longer, but sobbingly clutched his parents arm, and, with big tears running down his plump little cheeks, cried: ''But, pa-papa, where were the police P
 Forgot the details: Returned and beard ed traveller rushing up to former acquaint- ance with enthusiasm: 'tWhy! how are you, old man ?'' Short-sighted and absent minded former acquaintance (doubtfully): stEh! How do you do ?" "Why man alive Don't you remember Bob Travers?' ''Yes yes! Forged check, didn't he?" Qndig- nantly): ''No!" (Refectively) ''No2 Cut his wife's throat, wasn't it ?' ''No sir I'' 'Dear me, of course not. He was the man who embedded the trust funds and went of with Thompson's wife, wasn't he P (Furiously): ''No, sir am Bob Travers." {MildIy): ''You don't say sol We'll, what was it you did, anyhow 2"-Life.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-03
Mansfield. Ohio. Nov. as. 1881.

Mansfield. Ohio. Nov. a6, 1881.
 GentIemen:- :--lhave suffered with pam in my side and back, and great soreness on my breast, with shoot ing pains all through my body, at tended with great weakness, depres- sion of spirits, and loss of appe- tite. have taken several different medicines, andwas treated by prom inent physicians for my liver, kid neys, and spleen, but I got no relief. I thought 1 would try Browns Iron Bitters have now taken one bottle and half and am about well-pain in side and back all gone-soreness all out of my breast, and 1 have a good appetite, and am gaining in strength and flesh. Itcan justly be called the king of mea1ciNSs.
 JOHN K, ALLENDRR.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-03

An Irish member of Parliament says that the thirty y-eight Irish members who follow MT. Parnell's lead in the House of Commons represent constituencies with total popula- ton of but 1,710,0 GOO, while the sixty-fve Irish members who do not follow his lead represent constituencies with total popula- ton of 3, 792, GOO. In other words, MT. Par nell is only supported in the Commons by 8 little more than one-third of the Irish mem bers, and they represent less than one- third of the Irish people.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

There will be some lively political work in Chicago to day. The saloonkeepers have held meeting and voted to close their places of business and labor for the re election of Mayor Harrison, while the Board of Trade has concluded to hold no session so that mem hers may work for the citizens ticket.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-03

Mary Murphy, the Greenville rag sorter, who was attacked by smallpox, died Sunday morning and had to be buried by her father Sunday night.
 James Stoddard, we'll known Ledyard farmer, is lying very low with an abscess in his throat He has taken no nourishment for several days.
 Rev. George Allen, Congregational min ister aged 91. died at Worcester Saturday night. He graduated at Yale in 1913 and was the author of the resolution of 1S48 for free soil, free men, free speech and a free land.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-03
Price Three Cents.
SEEK

health and avoid sickness. Instead of feeling tired and worn out, instead of aches and pains, wouldn't you rather feel fresh and strongP
 You can continue feeling miserable and good for no- thing, and no one but your self can find fault, but if you are tired of that kind oflife, you can change it if you choose.
 How7 By getting one bottle of BROWN IRON B1T- TIERS, and taking it regularly according to directions.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-03

singular bill has been presented to the ment to contract with any responsible corpo- ration or individual to take entire charge of the insane for term of ten or twenty years for the sum of $13O year for each patient cared for. The bill also fixes the minimum number of patients at 65O and further pro- vides that soon as the contractor has pro- Vided building approved by the inspectors of prisons the government shall transfer the insane and idiots to such buildings, according to the provisions of such contract, and that lthe lieutenant-governor in council may per init the classification of the insane and idiots in different buildings, either contiguous or isolated, but he shall approve the selections of the sites and localities thereof It is not surprising that there is strong opposition to this bill. There ought to be.
 An act just passed by thelegisiature of New Jersey bids fair to result in good. It estab- fishes State board of charities consisting of six persons (the Governor making the seventh, ex-oficio) under the name of a ''council of State charities and eorrection.' The appointments are to be made for six years, one member going out each year, and are to be confirmed by the Senate; the coun- Gil is to meet quarterly in Trenton, and as much oftener, there or elsewhere, as may be necessary. They are authorized to employ 8 clerk, who may act as inspector, and they may appoint other inspectors for county and town institutions, but no inspection of any State institution can be made except by a member of the council. They are also au- thorized to appoint two delegates ann ually to
 the national conference of charities and are to report each year to the legislature the con- ditien of the State and municipal institu tions. Provision is made for registers and returns from every institution of charities and correction in New Jersey, presenting the important facts concerning the inmates whether paupers, prisoners or otherwise, and 1 these facts are to be ssso studied and ar
Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-03
BROWNS IRON RITTRRS Is

BROWNS IRON BITTRRs Is composed of Iron in soluble form; Cinchona the great tonic, together with other standard remedies, making a remarkable non-alcoholic tonic, which will cure Dys- pepsia, Indigestion, Malaria, Weakness, and relieve all Lung and Kidney diseases.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-03
ranged by the council of charities and correc- tions as may be necessary to aid in knowl- edge of the causes of dependency, pauperism and crime D

The Party of Action" which is working in Paris does not intend that the soldiers shall be without guide in the event of 8 revolution. Among the papers lately dis tributed in the soldiers barracks is one which tells the revolutionary soldier what he ought to do immediately there is news of an insur rection- He must set fire to his barrack. To enable him to do this, he must make for where the straw and other infiammable mat ter may be lying. In any case, he must set fire to the mattresses. For making fire he must employ a compound if it is at hand, of petroleum and alcohol, of petroleum simply, or use candle, if no better means are avail able. When the fire has commenced to burn up he must then turn on all the jets of gas in the corridors and apart ments. In the midst of the confusion he must either force the officers to join the revolt, or slay the recalcitrants, so that not one shall remain standing. He must then join the people in the street, and help to burn the public buildings. beginning with the po- lice offices Besides alcohoIized petroleum he should be furnished with yet deadiier agent, which is petroleum essence saturated with white phosphorus.
 A Portland (Me. ) lawyer, who lately visit el the Oxford county (Me.) court, was neatly s'come up with" In his address to the jury he eloquently referred to the sea, and it was evident that the jury were charmed with his beautiful words. But the lawyer opposed to him was equal to the emergency. He rose
 kkr1L ture of the sea may be altogether proper and fitting in the Portland home of my brother, lashed by the sounding waves of the Atlantic, and before Cumberland county jury. But here in Ox- ford county, among the mighty hills and stretching forests, where the only waves that break about their homes are those of toll and not unfrequently of sorrow, it is almost an insult to evoke from the chambers of the im- agination such figures of rhetoric. Gentle men of wealth and leisure, like my brother, can walk along the shell-lined beaches of the ocean and admire the scenes of the marine beauty and grandeur, but to the sons of Ox- ford county no such opportunities are grant, ed. The sharp scraping of the hoe, the swish of the keen scythe, are the tones to which is set the life music Of those hardy sons of toil these Oxford bears. No mur- mur of the ocean enchants them into forget fitness of labor. No picture like that drawn by my brother can allure them for moment from steadfast allegiance to their ancestral hills" This 'ssettled" it. In five minutes the jury decided in favor of the Oxford law yer and his client.