St. Landry democrat., 1883-08-18
M1scELLANEous.

A TELEGRAPH company has been in
corporated to run line between New York
and Bangor, Me.
THE strike of railroad operators had
assumed no new phase on the It'll. So far
as could be learned very few men quit
work. The Western Union Company
offered 81 900 reward for the conviction of
parties who cut their wires in New York.
JAMES MCDERMoTT landed in Liver
pool, Eng, the other day from America
and was Immediately remanded on charge
of conspiracy to murder officials.
The President of the Auburndale
(Mass.) Watch Company has failed.
SEVERAL failures of tanners in New
Hampshire and Massachusetts were re-
ported on the It'll.
KRAzEMsKI, the Polish author, who is
charged with conspiracy in Berlin, Ger
many, has been released on bail.
MICHAEL BANNER, station agent for
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail
road at Marseilles, ILL.,, was arrested few
days ago on charge of embezzling Odd
Fellows funds in New York ten years ago.
RECENT Investigations by the Inter-
nal Revenue Bureau into the adulteration
of beer are said to have developed facts so
startling that circular has been issued re-
all articles used in the manufacture of
lager.
The national amateur regatta at
Newark, MI, closed on the Sth. The Cana.
dian yacht Atalanta won the Fisher cup in
the Chicago qll.) regatta on the same day.
The Treasury Department will con-
struct couple of vaults for storage of coin
at New Orleans and Washington.
CHOLERA had carried off twelve per
cent. of the inmates Of the Cairo Egypt
Insane Asylum in four days. Seven deaths
were reported on the Sth at Alexandria.
Cases were increasing in number there,
though decreasing in the interior of the
country.
AT Bismarck, OAK, the telegraph
office was mobbed by strikers on the sth,
who removed the one operator on duty and
put him to bed. A large number of wires
were disabled in New York and vicinity.
The railroad strike did not seem to grow
more general, though the operators on other
roads were to Be called out from day to
day.
A BRITISH consular agent announces
his belief that the report of Cetewayo's
death was hoax.
The Columbian government has pro-
hibited the sale of arms to any of the bel
ligerents in Ecuador.
In the cases brought against the
Western Union Telegraph Company in
Philadelphia, Pa, recently, for failure to
deliver messages promptly, Judgment was
rendered in favor of defendant.
In the recent anti-Jewish riots in Rus
STA the Jews all escaped. The slaughter
was among the rioters themselves.
In the trial of Canon Bernard at Brus-
sells, Belgium, on the sth, on charge of
abstracting securities of the diocese of
Tourney valued at several millions of
francs, the defense was set up that the
Canon had paper from the Pope autoriz-
ing him to use his own means to conceal the
treasure.
The British imports and exports for,
July were less than for July of last year.
A REVENUE steamer the other day
captured sloop which was engaged in
smuggling Cinnamon into the country from
British Columbia. It was said to be reg.
ular business.
In the trial of Featherstone, Deasy,
Flanagan and Dalton, the dynamite con-
spirators, at Liverpool, Eng. the jury on
the 9th found the prisoners guilty and each
was sentenced to penal servitude for life.