St. Landry democrat., 1883-06-02

AN unknown horse-thief was lynched
at Overton, Nebr., a few days ago by cow
boys.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE net earnings of the Philadelphia
& Reading Railroad Company for April
were $7775, ,427.
A NIHILIsT emlssary from Russia has
been arrested in South Bavaria.
AT military reunion at Niagara
Falls on the I'D the Fifth Virginia Infantry
returned to the Twenty y-eighth New York
Volunteers battle flag captured from
them during the war.
The Attorney General has decided in
favor of the National Banks, that no taxes
are due from them since January 10, 1888.
The dynamite conspirators were
again arraigned at Liverpool on the 22d.
Testimony was offered showing the connec-
ton of the prisoners with the explosion in
the gasworks at Glasgow. Counsel for
Deary and Flanagan protested this did not
concern their clients. A policeman tes-
titled he followed O'Connor in London the
9th of March, and saw him examine the
houses of Parliament and Westminster Alb
bey.
THE Ohio Knights of Pythias began
their fourteenth annual session of the
Grand Lodge at Cincinnati on the 22d.
The Grand Lodss of the World of the
Independent Order of Good Templars
began its twenty ninth annual session in
Chicagoon the same day.
THE Macon (Ga.) Volunteers, a mill
tary organization founded in 1925, will
make tour of the Western cities shortly.
The prison Of Lancaster County, Pa,
has been quarantined on account ofnsl out
break of smallpox.
Two savings bank directors at Cron-
stadt, Russia, have been sentenced to trans
portation for fraud.
CATLETTsBURG, KY, was shaken by
an earthquake few nights ago. The
weather was aguish.
THERE was great excitement in
Waynesboro, Ca, the other day over an at
tempt to indict prominent citizens for ex-
pelling Chinese from the place.
The bucket-shops have secured a de-
cision in their favor in Chicago. The court
rules that so long as the Board of Trade al
lows the telegraph company's agents on its
floor to gather. and send out quotations it
can not be allowed to discriminate to whom
the quotations shall be sent.
THE President of the Mexican Re-
public has declared forfeited the contract
of Washington company for the drainage
of the city and valley of Mexico for failure
to deposit guarantee funds.
THIRTY-FoUR members of new se-
cret society in Spain have been arrested at
Acres.
SOME Bolivian customs officials have
caused sensation by confscating stock
Of Bibles because they did not bear the
proper pontifical stamp.
On the 23d the Kerry Qreland) Sen
tinel was suppressed for advertising a
meeting of persons desirous of joining the
Invincibles. Additional arrests were made
on account Of the murder conspiracy in
County Mayo. The marines doing police
duty in Ireland were to be Withdrawn.
ISRAEL WEINsTEIN, injured in a rail-
road accident on the Pennsylvania line,
failed to recover damages because he was
travelling on free pass.
The General Assemblies of the Pres
byterian Church, North and South, have
appointed committees to arrange plan
for cooperation in certain departments of
religious work the plan to be submitted to
the General Assemblies next year. This
action is regarded as the first step toward
the union of the Northern and Southern
churches.
A RICH discovery of horn silver was
reported from Turkey Greek, thirty y-three
miles southwest of Prescott, Ariz., a few
days ago. Two prospectors discovered q
blind lead, and had taken out $50 900 within
five days.
The explosion which occurred in the
Cars dressing-room at st. Petersburg the
other day is said to have been caused by
escaping gas.
AN electrical inventor at New York
has applied for patent upon a contrivance
for executing criminals without pain and
without Disagreement. He offers to assign
the patent to the Government. 0
The Chief of Police of Memphis,
Tenn, the other day arrested General
James r. Chalmers, of Mississippi, and
Colonel Galloway, of the Memphis Appeal,
who were suspected of duelistic intentions,
and they were each put under 81 900 bonds
to keep the peace.
The Cuban sugar crop is expected to
fall twenty-five per cent. short of last
years, on account of drought.