St. Landry democrat., 1883-09-15
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

xElSSONAL AMI EOLllACAAs
JUDGE GEORGE HoADLEY, Demo-
cratic nominee for Governor of Ohio, left
home on the I'd for Philadelphia, to place
himself under the care of DR.. Bartholomew.
He was laboring under combination Of
malarial and nervous disorders.
On the I'd the Earl and Countess of
Carnavon arrived in Quebec, and were the
guests of Princess Louise and the Margins
of Lorne at the citadel.
WASHINGTON dispatches on the Sd
stated that Supervising Architect of the
Treasury Hill would shortly resign, wheth-
er the report of the Hill Commission were
favorable or unfavorab1e.
KING ALFONSO, in a speech at Mont
forte on the Sd, thanked the French Direc-
tors who are building railways in that
country. His Majesty expressed the hope
that they would become an added link of
union between France and Spain.
The funeral obseqnies of the Count
de Chambord took place on the I'd, and was
an imposing affair.
1t was reported that Lord Headly,
one of Uncle Rufus Hatch's excursionists,
rushed headlong over precipice while in
pursuit of game and was severely hurt.
A SHORT time ago Charles Read, of
the firm of Read & Carroll, wood-workers,
Springfield, Mass, disappeared. He was
supposed to have had only about $500 with
him. He was always considered a man of
good habits.
The Inauguration of j. Proctor Knott
as Governor of Kentucky was witnessed by
ten thousand people on the 4th.
On the 4th the steamer Canada, with
Prince George of Wales on board, arrived
in Quebec. The Prince was the guest of
the Governor General and Princess Louise.
GENERAL WALKER, United States
Consul General to Paris, United States
Consul Lyons and Congressman Ochiltree,
of Texas, were to be present at the unveil-
ing of the Lafayette monument, in France.
On the 18th Mrs. General Robert
Toombs died at GAINESVILLE, Ga, her sum
mer residence.
The President and party reached
Chicago on the 18th, and were accorded a
genuine ovation.
On the 9th Postmaster-General
Gresham filed his answer to the suit for
AdLldScS Hill ny uu0 ANSW
Orleans Lottery managers.
THE noted Chief, Sitting Bull, has de-
clined the invitation to visit the Iowa State
Fair. He prefers the safety of the Reser-
walton.
EX-GOVERNOR TALBOT, of Massa-
chusetts, has positively declined to again
become candidate for that office.
On the 9th Herbert L. Anderson, In.
spector Post-office Department st. Louis
Conrad Baker, Ex-Governor of Indiana,
were married at Indianapolis.
The death of Professor Marley, who
was electrician to the first Atlantic Cable
Company, was reported on the 9TH.
The Greenbackers of New York have
nominated Rev. Thomas K. Beecher for
Secretary of State.
IT was denied by Fred. Douglass that
the colored convention in Louisville is to
be in the interest of President Arthur.
JAY GOULD testified before the SEN
ate Committee on Education and Labor on
the 9TH.
JOHN r. boutwell,, of New York,
with Union Pacific and London syndi-
cate behind him, was reported to be the
contractor for railway surveys being made
from Fort Washable to Yellowstone Park.
Sixty MILLION FRANCS were left by
the Count de Chambord to be divided
between the Duke of Parma and the Count
of Bardi.
QUEEN VICTORIA subscribed f200 to
the Egyptian relief fund.
EDWARD STABLER died at Sandy
Springs. Montgomery County, Nd, on the
Nth, in the same house in which he was
born, September, 1884, He was appointed
Postmaster Of Sandy Springs in $780, and
held the office up to the time of his death.
Count DE CHAMBoRD left 100000
francs to charity and religious societies.
On the 9th Fred Lauer, well-known
brewer and first President Of the United
States Brewers Congress, died at Reading,
Pa, aged seventy three.
AT lie Puy, France, the statue of La
fayette was unveiled on the 9th in presence
of an immense concourse of people, includ-
ing many Americans.
The recently appointed Inspector Of
Reforms in Egypt, Clifford Lloyd, sailed
for Cairo on the 9th.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLERIDGE of
England, arrived in Boston on the 9th and
was the honored guest of the Common
wealth, Municipality and Bar Association.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
In single province Of Italy two hun
dred persons charged with brigandage have /
vecently been arrested,
JAMES HENNERsHEETs, of Chicago,
who beat banks at Keokuk, Grinnell and |
March a lltnyun Ia and M .Ga,thono M Fl